August/September 2019 ●Philosophy Now 3Philosophy Now ISSUE 133 Aug/Sept 2019
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4 Scientific Knowledge by Grant Bartley
5 News
PHILOSOPHY & SCIENCE
6 Philosophy of Science: The First 2.5 Millennia
Will Bouwman tells us the grand narrative so far
11 Einstein versus Logical Positivism
Rossen Vassilev Jr finds modern physics rather metaphysical
14 Phenomenology & Science
Kalina Moskaluk has problems in the study of experience itself
16 DNA & Identity
Raymond Keogh applies science to the search for personal identity
18 Flora or Mona Lisa?
Predrag Slijepcevic asks which is a better model for organisms
20 Interview: John Dupré discusses the philosophy of biology with
Edit Talpsepp-Randla
GENERAL ARTICLES
23 Aristotle and the Good Ruler
Maxwell Cameron asks how the tutor of Alexander the Great
measured up
28 The Good, The Bad and Theodicy
John Holroyd says some arguments about evil are just bad
31 Is Attributing Evil A Cognitive Bias?
Aner Govrin thinks about what it means to be wicked
40 Tidying Up With Socrates
Freya Mobus goes beyond the KonMari method
REVIEWS
44 Book: An Appeal to the World by the Dalai Lama
reviewed appealingly by Ian Robinson
45 Book: Down Girl by Kate Manne
reviewed upstandingly by Amber Edwards
46 Book: Understanding Ignorance by Daniel R. DeNicola
reviewed insightfully by Paul McGavin
48 Film: Nightcrawler
Terri Murray watches the death of reality
REGULARS
33 Question of the Month: What Is The Third Way?
Read readers’ thoughts on political alternatives
36 Brief Lives: Maine de Biran
Benjamin Bâcle on the willful life of a pioneer of self-knowing
41 Letters to the Editor
51 Philosophy Then: First Believe, Then Understand
Peter Adamson has reasonable revelations from history
54 Tallis In Wonderland: In Measure Began Our Might
Raymond Tallis gauges the meaning and power of measuring
58 Philosophical Haiku:
William of Ockham by Terence Green
FICTION
56 Mill Meets Gandhi
Eugene Alper hears two reformers arguing about ‘progress’Looks Familiar?
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