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The Tree of Knowledge
The Limits of Computation
Apostolos Syropoulos goes back to BASICs to consider whether the human brain is a computer.
The Tree of Knowledge
The Limits of Argument
Howard Darmstadter asks why rational debate doesn’t often change minds.
Criticising Science
Martin Kusch and Alexander Reutlinger discuss the ways science is criticised.
I Don’t Believe It!
Dene Bebbington presents a couple of bad but popular arguments.
Escaping Scepticism with Hegel & Heidegger
Benedict O’Connell asks, must reasoning ultimately rest upon mere assumption?
Regulars
Editorial: Tree of Knowledge
by Rick Lewis
News: News: February/March 2021
Time travel “possible without paradoxes&rduqo; • Legal ethics pioneer dies • Germany bans slaughter of male chicks — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
Articles
The View From Somewhere Else
Andy Owen travels to see various perspectives from various perspectives.
Anxious Idleness
Why are we incapable of guilt-free leisure? Jacob Snyder says, blame John Locke!
Further Animal Liberation
John Tamilio III augments the arguments of Peter Singer.
How to Look at Facebook
Devon Bombassei considers the irony of our ‘liberation’ in the digital age.
Columns
Philosophy Shorts: Philosophers on Buildings
by Matt Qvortrup
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Philosophical Haiku: George Berkeley (1685-1753)
by Terence Green
Philosophy Then: The Missing Link
Peter Adamson perceives absences in Indian epistemology.
Street Philosopher: Floating Over Fallowfield
Seán Moran takes a bird’s-eye view of risk.
Reviews
Why We Are in Need of Tails by Maria daVenza Tillmanns
Philosophy is child’s play this issue, as Sergey Borisov explores the existential need for commitment using tails.
Philosophy Friends! by Francisco Mejia Uribe
Max Rocky Zelcer and Mark Zelcer review five short childrens’ books starring their Philosophy Friends!
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Cuties (Mignonnes)
Majalli Fatah rips apart a so-called ‘feminist’ critique of an uncomfortable feminist film.
Truth by Simon Blackburn
Nick Everitt is unconvinced that what Simon Blackburn says about truth is true.
Fiction
The Tragedy and the Paradox of Greek Civilization
by Vincent Kavaloski
