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Tim Madigan visiting W.B. Yeat’s grave in Sligo.

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Thomas Duddy & Irish Philosophy

Tim Madigan travels through time to seek the essential nature of Irish thought.

Philosophical Haiku

G.E. Moore (1873–1958) Such obscurity: Needless confusion contrived.

Irish Philosophy & Me

Cathy Barry charts her journey through historical Irish thought.

Edmund Burke & the Politics of Reform

Jon Langford outlines conservative insights gained from revolutionary failures.

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Philip Pettit & The Birth of Ethics

Peter Stone thinks about a thought experiment about how ethics evolved.

Philosophy & Hurling: Thinking & Playing

Stiofán Ó Murchadha knowing how we know.

Horseplay in Hibernia

Seán Moran explores equine escapades in Eire and elsewhere.

How to Have a Good Life

Meena Danishmal asks if Seneca’s account of the good life is really practical.

A Philosophical History of Transhumanism

John Kennedy Philip goes deep into the search for (post-) human heights.

Hume’s Problem of Induction

Patrick Brissey exposes a major unprovable assumption at the core of science.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Hilarius Bogbinder looks at a man who wanted to make Peace from Warre.

EXISTENTIAL COMICS

A comic by Corey Mohler about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world.

Towards Love

George Mason on love as shared identity.

The Philosophy of Work

Alessandro Colarossi has insights for the bored and understimulated.

Steven Pinker

is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and a popular writer on linguistics and evolutionary psychology. Angela Tan interviews him about politics, language, death, and reasons to be optimistic.

Letters

When inspiration strikes, don’t bottle it up. Email me at rick.lewis@philosophynow.org Keep them short and keep them coming!

The Discipline of Assent

Massimo Pigliucci tells us to stop impulsively judging.

Books

The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton 

Classics

ATLAS SHRUGGED, published in1957,isanovelbyRussian-American philosopher Ayn Rand. It’s

Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode

Thomas R. Morgan hears more than silence.

Cogito, Ergo Sum?

Raymond Tallis has a long-postponed meeting with M. Descartes.

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On Love

AmirAli Maleki looks at love from an Islamic perspective.

“Stand Out Of My Light”

Sophie Dibben watches Alexander the Great meet Diogenes the Cynic.