Back Issues
Issue 62
July/August 2007
EDITORIAL
So, who are you?
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
PERSONAL IDENTITY & TIME
A Question of Identity
Bob Harrison questions his identity.
A New Look At Personal Identity 
Michael Allen Fox argues that old approaches to the problem don’t work.
Compatibilism
Craig Ross on whether freedom is all it’s been made up to be.
Transcending The Moment
Brian Breeze takes time to think.
Time and the Medieval World
Arnold A. Smith II thinks there’s always time to consider eternity.
OTHER ARTICLES
The Unbearable Lightness of Ethics
Stephen Anderson wonders whether talk of ethics has any substance.
Erudition or Gobbledygook?
Tom Shipka considers whether the negativity of communicative unclarity impedes the ontological contingency of non-distance in the dialectic of being, or something.
Sporting Enthusiasm and Authentic Achievement
Hans Lenk reflects on an Olympic climax of achievement Former Olympic enthusiasm.
Treason To Truth: The Myths Of Plato
Chad Trainer says Plato betrayed philosophy by resorting to mythology.
OBITUARIES
Richard Rorty (1931-2007)
Gideon Calder reports after the death of the infamous pragmatist.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our sixteenth sizzling slab of symbiotic semiotic sophistry semantically spliced then systematically sewn together by Deiradiotes.
INTERVIEWS
Christopher Phillips
Christopher Phillips is known for promoting the art of Socratic enquiry in cafés, schools and even prisons all over the globe. David Taube met him to talk about his new book, Socrates In Love, a series of anecdotes, interviews and essays based around the five Greek concepts of love.
LETTERS
Opinions on Outta Space, The Rules of Particularity and more...
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers’ questions.
Moral Moments: Thought For Food – Re: Veal
by Joel Marks
Food for Thought: What’s In A Name?
Who is Tim Madigan?
BOOKS
A Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology by Mitchell Silver
Joel Marks asks ‘New God or no God?’
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Mark Vernon questions Richard Dawkins’ state of self-delusion.
FILMS
Just Ask The Dust
Existentialism goes to the movies. Nick DiChario finds that the novel fills spaces the film doesn’t even have.
SHORT STORY
Miranda and the Over-Dragon
Nolan Whyte with his second fable about the philosophical adventuress.