EDITORIAL
Being Human
by Grant Bartley
NEWS
Issue 80 August/September 2010
News reports by Sue Roberts.
THE HUMAN CONDITION
What Does It Mean To Be Cool?
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein links Stoicism and Hip Hop.
Can We Be Happy?
Kathleen O’Dwyer sets out to conquer herself, with help from Bertrand Russell.
What Makes This Question Funny?
Jeffrey Gordon delivers the punch line.
Laughter is a Time Machine
Mark Weeks sees the funny side of suspended animation.
Can Addicts Help It?
Piers Benn can’t resist finding out.
ARTICLES
An Amoral Manifesto (Part I)
A special extended column from our (erstwhile) Moral Moments columnist Joel Marks.
Compassion & Peace
Michael Allen Fox advocates the seeking of peace through compassion.
Complementarity & Reality
Alistair MacFarlane has complementary ways of looking at things.
Thus Sang The Manic Street Preachers
Leighton Evans takes a Nietzschean perspective on the Manic Street Preachers.
Warning: The Objects in the Photograph are not as Real as they Appear
Matt Randle warns us about seeing the world through a lens darkly.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our thirty-fourth feast of fine philosophical facts fitted together thoughtfully by Deiradiotes.
INTERVIEWS
Robert J. Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer is one of the best known sci-fi authors of today. Nick DiChario talks to him about the philosophical ideas embedded in his books.
COLUMNS
On Xenophobia
Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci.
Okey Doke
Raymond Tallis is illocutionary about the young Wittgenstein’s perlocutions.
REVIEWS
Emerson & Thoreau: Figures of Friendship
Scott F. Parker gets friendly with Emerson & Thoreau.
Out Of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain by Alva Noë
Kurt Keefner tells you why you can’t be only your brain.
Philosophy Through Science Fiction
Liz Stillwaggon Swan thinks through sci fi.
FICTION
Redemption
Abbas Zaidi tells us of the human condition in Lahore.
Evolution
by Murray Sheldermine
The Museum-going Cannibal
by Yahia Lababidi
