Philosophy Now Magazine - December 2024 / January 2025

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December 2024 / January 2025

Exploring Atheism

Amrit Pathak gives us a run-down of the foundations of modern atheism.

10 mins

A Critique of Pure Atheism

Andrew Likoudis questions the basis of some popular atheist arguments.

10 mins

A God of Limited Power

Philip Goff grasps hold of the problem of evil and comes up with a novel solution.

5 mins

The Best Possible World, But Not For Us

Mohsen Moghri gives a Godless but principled response to the problem of evil.

10+ mins

Medieval Islam & the Nature of God

Musa Mumtaz meditates on two maverick medieval Muslim metaphysicians.

3 mins

Metaphors & Creativity

Ignacio Gonzalez-Martinez has a flash of inspiration about the role metaphors play in creative thought.

10+ mins

Seeing & Knowing

Shashwat Mishra explores the limits of perception via the Molyneux problem.

7 mins

Perpetuating the Santa Deception

Jimmy Alfonso Licon wonders whether pretending there’s a Santa is naughty or nice.

5 mins

Plato's Cave & Social Media

Seán Radcliffe asks, has Plato's Allegory of the Cave been warning us of social media for 2,400 years?

6 mins

Trolls, Skeptics & Philosophers

Rosemary Twomey questions our online epistemology.

10 mins

Robert Stern

talks with AmirAli Maleki about philosophy in general, and Kant and Hegel in particular.

10+ mins

Volney (1757-1820)

John P. Irish travels the path of a revolutionary mind.

7 mins

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Becky Lee Meadows considers questions of guilt, innocence, and despair in this classic Christmas movie.

10+ mins

"I refute it thus"

Raymond Tallis kicks immaterialism into touch.

7 mins

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