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Life & Death
Immortality & A Galactic Future
Andy Yee looks forward to humanity’s technological ascension.
Life & Death
A Critique of Antinatalism
Deniz Kose thinks there’s good reasons to want human life to continue.
Making Omelettes & A Future Like Ours
Jimmy Alfonso Licon wonders what’s wrong with killing – first chickens, then humans.
Death as Life’s Picture Frame
Joshua Clements puts us in the picture.
Who Wants to Live Forever?
Dan Pollen weighs up the pros and cons of indefinitely extended life.
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Regulars
Editorial: Life and Death
by Rick Lewis
News: June/July 2026
Hertfordshire scraps philosophy • Nancy Cartwright honoured for phil sci work • Cops raid Moscow philosophy institute — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
Articles
Jürgen Habermas: Defender of the Enlightenment
Patrick West on postmodernism and communicative reason.
Antonio Negri (1933-2023)
Antonio Negri was an Italian political philosopher who in his time courted controversy, and was even jailed for links with Communist organisations. Leonardo Caffo talked with him about the future of the Left.<
Margalit & Limits to Political Compromise
Laure Gillot-Assayag reflects on the political philosophy of Avishai Margalit.
Great Minds, Flawed Lives
Tony Shenton asks, should we cancel the compromised intellectual, or read them?
What’s the Value of Mountaineering?
Suleyman Moollan wonders why people climb mountains.
Why Sport Needs Good & Evil
Kola Adeosun & Ato Kenya Rockcliffe on the dynamics of sporting greatness.
Columns
Philosophy Shorts: Philosophers on Butterflies
by Matt Qvortrup
Philosophical Haiku: Socrates (c.470-399 BCE)
by Terence Green
Tallis in Wonderland: Cut-Price Dualism: ‘Properties Not Substances’
Raymond Tallis says a modern modified mind-body dualism still doesn’t work.
The Art of Living: The Delphic Injunctions
Massimo Pigliucci philosophises about prophetic principles.
Reviews
Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
Frank S. Robinson ponders our AI future.
The Philosophy of Ramalinga Vallalar by Thiru R. Kuppusamy
Priya Muthukannan studies a philosophy of compassion.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
Teresa Candeias reads Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Star Trek: Enterprise
Sofia Villaweaver asks, what kind of future do we want – Gene Roddenberry’s, or Friedrich Nietzsche’s?
Fiction
Being
by Lisa Roberts
