The Art Issue Art As An Encounter Daniel Vargas Gómez considers what we encounter when we encounter art.. When Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) wrote Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Über ...

Modern French Philosophy Derrida’s Performance Yonathan Listik puts in a linguistic performance to communicate Derrida’s linguistic performance.. The title of this article contains an ambiguity, and ...

The Arts Art As Sensation: Four Painters As Philosophers Of Art Patricia Railing explains the philosophical ideas behind some of abstract art’s most famous abstractions.. There has been much ...

Science & Morality Einstein’s Morality Ching-Hung Woo looks at the many facets of Albert Einstein’s approach to ethics.. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) regarded morality as indispensable to the survival ...

Forms of Pacifism. Pacifism emerges as people take these moral restraints on war ever more seriously. Varieties of pacifism differ by degree. It is helpful to understand the various forms of pacifism ...

Articles In Defense of Alain Badiou Robert Michael Ruehl describes new political possibilities.. In Issue 107, Philosophy Now published James Alexander’s ‘A Refutation of Snails by Roast Beef’, an ...

How To Think Resolving Paradoxes Noson Yanofsky tells us how to deal with contradictions and the limitations of reason that arise from them.. We all have conflicting desires. We want to get promoted, ...

Articles Philosophy & Cocktails Robin Small will have a Martini – stirred, not shaken.. Several books on wine and philosophy have appeared in recent years. Amongst these, Roger Scruton’s I Drink ...

Bioethics & Medical Ethics Eating Stupid Pigs Marco Kaisth asks, could radical genetic engineering create ethical factory farms?. Pigs are exceptionally intelligent animals. They’re able to solve odor ...

Modern French Philosophy French Post-Marxism Peter Benson tells us how critiques of both Marx and capitalist society have evolved in France, with special reference to Jean Baudrillard and Bernard ...

Nietzsche undermines any self-deceiving idealism about love through the exposure of its less attractive motivations. In section 14 of The Gay Science, entitled ‘The things people call love’, Nietzsche ...

Hegel’s Classification of History. In his Introduction to Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1837), Hegel argues that there are three ways of doing history.. The first of these is original ...