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Does philosophy matter?

A new issue of Philosophy in Review is out. Barbara H. Fried (Stanford): What Does Matter? The Case for Killing the Trolley Problem (Or Letting it Die). Jeremy Waldron (NYU): What are Moral Absolutes Like? Douglas Walton (Windsor): Why Fallacies Appear to Be Better Arguments than They Are. From NDPR, a review of Philosophy of Language and a review of What is Meaning? by Scott Soames. More on On What Matters, Volumes 1 and 2 by Derek Parfit. Anthony Aguirre on how infinity can violate our human intuition, which is based on finite systems, and create perplexing philosophical problems. Sell Descartes, buy Spinoza: Investors, take note — this Dutch rationalist is a hot stock (and more). From The Philosophers' Magazine, Elizabeth S Radcliffe explains how Hume put feelings centre stage and Helen Beebee looks at how David Hume has influenced the debate about causation. A review of John Stuart Mill and the Writing of Character by Janice Carlisle. Peter Singer explains why he thinks Henry Sidgwick is so important for the utilitarian tradition and why is ideas continue to have relevance. Sentimentality or Honesty: Mark Oppenheimer on Charles Taylor as a sadly endangered type: the philosopher-statesman. Does philosophy matter? Stanley Fish says philosophical positions are fine for seminars, but mean little in real life (and part 2). Here are the online dating profiles of the wise and famous. An interview with Lou Marinoff, author of Plato Not Prozac (and part 2). From Synthesis Philosophica, a special issue on Philosophy and Media. An excerpt from I Watch, Therefore I Am: From Socrates to Sartre, the Great Mysteries of Life as Explained Through Howdy Doody, Marcia Brady, Homer Simpson, Don Draper, and Other TV Icons by Gregory Bergman and Peter Archer. A review of SpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy: Soaking Up Secrets Under the Sea.