A new issue of Synthesis Philosophica is out. Kimberley Brownlee (Warwick) and Richard Child (Cambridge): Can the Law Help Us to Be Moral? The place of philosophy: An interview with Gila Sher, a philosopher who looks to fatten up truth in a groovy way. A review of The Necessity of Errors by John Roberts. Alexis Burgess is a groovy indie-rocking philosopher who finds logic and the metaphysics of language the key, what with his deep thoughts on truth, fiction, realism, reference, existence, identity, indeterminacy and all. A review of When Words Are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy by Avner Baz. J. David Velleman on why it's irrational to regret what might have been. A review of Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus by John M. Cooper. What could leave philosophy? Brian Weatherson wonders (and more). The drama of existentialism: Though written off by many, Sartre, Camus and their cohort still animate some of the deepest philosophical questions we face.
