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Listening to modern philosophers

A new issue of European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy is out. Shane J. Ralston (Penn State): The Turn within the Pragmatic Turn. Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse on the eclipse of Pragmatism. From Essays in Philosophy, a special issue on Love and Reasons. Plato and romance: We all know the unexamined life isn’t worth living (or so says Socrates), but is the unloving life even worth examining? A review of On What Matters, Volumes I and II by Derek Parfit (and more). Costica Bradatan on philosophy as an art of dying. Kristopher McDaniel outlines the possibilities for a new and more comprehensive category of entities which includes holes, and which he calls "Almost Nothings". Listening to modern philosophers it’s clear that philosophy has abandoned the armchair and moved into the shopping mall and cyberspace. A review of Philosophical Inquiries: An Introduction to Problems of Philosophy by Nicholas Rescher. Hegel hits the frontier: Philosophy student uses thesis and antithesis to paint St. Louis as Eden. Harry Jaffa reviews a new edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (and more). Philosophy 101: Philosophy slogans to pick you up, or bring you down. Faces of Philosophy: Philosophers eye the world in intense ways — the photographer Steve Pyke eyes philosophers the same way. A review of Philosophers by Steve Pyke. Which leading 20th-century philosopher took this photo? The surprising photographic legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.