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Articles
Artificial Consciousness: Our Greatest Ethical Challenge
Paul Conrad Samuelsson takes the perspective of the computer for a change.
West Meets East
Meditating with Descartes
Karen Parham asks how close Western philosophy gets to Buddhism.
Some Solid Ideas
Bharatwaj Iyer examines substance with the help of Hume & Vedantic philosophy.
Truth and the True
Joseph Sen on types of knowledge in Western and Indian thought.
Seeing True Nature
John Worthington-Hill explores Buddhist environmental thought.
Regulars
Editorial: The Impossible Issue
by Anja Steinbauer
News: June/July 2019
Wasp Logic • Euro Robo Rules • Yale scientists playing in God’s domain — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
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Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659-1719)
Martin Jenkins considers the way of the samurai.
From Ape to Man & Beyond
Henrik Schoeneberg contends that our next step is to learn to accept ourselves.
Ethics & Uncertainty
Michael Jordan asks how knowledge of circumstances affects our morality.
Awe & Sublimity
Robert Clewis on philosophers and psychologists observing mighty things.
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Encounters With The (Post) Sublime
Siobhan Lyons asks where we can find the sublime in the modern world.
Beauty versus Evil
Stuart Greenstreet asks whether we may judge a work to be artistically good even if we know it to be morally evil.
Columns
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Philosophical Haiku: Confucius (c.551-479 BCE)
by Terence Green
Philosophy Then: A Passage to India
Peter Adamson crosses continents, cultures and concepts.
Street Philosopher: Secure in Sindh
Seán Moran gets to grips with guards.
Tallis in Wonderland: About Aboutness
Raymond Tallis has some thoughts about intentionality.
Reviews
Living with Robots by Paul Dumouchel & Luisa Damiano
Richard Baron wonders what changes in our own thinking it would take to live with sociable robots.
Kant & the Science of Logic by Huaping Lu-Adler
Melissa Merritt considers the logic of Immanuel Kant.
Philosopher at a Film Festival
Thomas E. Wartenberg reports from the 22nd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival.
Logos by Raymond Tallis
We seek purpose and enlightenment as Stephen Anderson attempts to understand Raymond Tallis’s attempt to understand our understanding of the world.
Fiction
Solid Ground
by Clinton Van Inman
