Philosophy Now - 04 2020

60 Pages·2020·24.02 MB·English

ISSUE 137 APRIL / MAY 2020
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April/May 2020 � Philosophy Now 3

Philosophy Now
ISSUE 137 April/May 20

Nietzschean Life
How to be an Übermensch
Pages 6-22

EDITORIAL & NEWS

4 Nietzsche’s Hammer by Tim Beardmore-Gray

5 Report: Philosophy Now Festival by Anja Steinbauer
56 Obituary: Roger Scruton
Piers Benn remembers a friend and colleague

NIETZSCHE PAST & FUTURE
6 Eternal Recurrence Revisited
Brandon Robshaw looks again at Nietzsche’s idea of repetition
10 ‘I Am A God’
David Birch compares Nietzsche, radical, to Kanye West, rapper
14 Two Famous Philistines of Philosophy
Christopher Brown studies Nietzsche’s & Plato’s attacks on art
18 Nietzsche & History
Paul Doolan on remembering and forgetting
20 Our Nietzschean Future
Paul O’Mahoney peers into Nietzsche’s crystal ball

GENERAL ARTICLES
24 When Moral & Causal Words Collide
Toni Vogel Carey wrestles with conflicts of duty
28 To Infinity... and Beyond?
Owain Griffin explains why infinity comes in all sizes
31 Return To Infinity!
Les Reid wonders if the universe might be boundless after all
34 Escaping the Academic Coal Mine
David Rönnegard asks why academics produce so much slag

REVIEWS
42 Book: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
reviewed productively by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
43 Book: Philosophical Posthumanism by Francesca Ferrando
reviewed superhumanly by Roberto Manzocco
44 Book: Fellow Creatures by Christine M. Korsgaard
reviewed empathetically by Chad Trainer
46 Film: Zombies at the Movies
Chris Ferbrache explores an obsession with reanimated corpses

REGULARS
9 Philosophical Haiku: Friedrich Hayek by Terence Green
35 Brief Lives: Leonardo da Vinci
Mark Willingham studies artistic genius philosophically
38 Letters to the Editor
41 Philosophy Then: Life & the Mind
Peter Adamson considers the role of biography in philosophy
49 Question of the Month: What & Why are Human Rights?
Read our readers’ replies to see who’s right about rights
54 Tallis In Wonderland: Against Neural Philosophy of Mind
Raymond Tallis minds being identified as his brain

POETRY, FICTION & FUN
21 Simon & Finn Melissa Felder
33 The Last Question Ben G. Yacobi asks it, poetically
58 Morality Games
Steve Brewer on game theory and co-operation.

I N F I N I T Y
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