Issues
Issue 128: October/November 2018
EDITORIAL
Creature Discomforts
by “Adam”
NEWS
News: October/November 2018
China hosts vast World Congress • Johns Hopkins philosophy department prepares to throw big party • Causality starts to look wobbly — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
FRANKENSTEIN & PHILOSOPHY
Frankenstein Lives!
Tim Madigan considers the core philosophical themes of the long-lived novel.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein & Moral Philosophy
Raymond Boisvert explores prominent ethical facets of Frankenstein.
Moral Blind Spots
Gerald Jones discusses how we judge the past, how we will one day be judged, and what we can do about it.
ARTICLES
Moral Education for Digital Natives
Laura D’Olimpio discusses the moral role for teachers of digital denizens.
Why Is There A World?
Carlo Filice wonders why a god would bother to create a world.
What Makes A Philosopher?
Siobhan Lyons hunts down a philosopher’s essential ingredients.
A Brief Explanation of Anarchism
Mary Shelley’s father, political philosopher William Godwin, was the first modern exponent of anarchism. In his honour, Nick Gutierrez states the stateless ideal.
Does Western Philosophy Have Egyptian Roots?
Peter Flegel highlights possible connections between early Greek philosophy and the ideas of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.
Abortion & Phenomenology
Michael Kowalik considers a possible implication of abortion for self-awareness.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Sandrine Bergès considers the too short wanderings of a political philosopher.
Learning To Love Our Teachers
Anushka Bhaskar (18) and Zachary Cerniglia (19) consider the importance of gratitude for education.
INTERVIEWS
Kathryn Harkup
Tim Madigan meets the author of Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
LETTERS
Letters
Peeling Off The Labels • Barking Up The Wrong Dogma • Derrida Sometimes Makes Sense • Fifty Shades of Truth • Reviewer Brought to Book • The Good Friends of Bad Company • Not Believing or Believing Not • Further Physicalist Philosophy Fights
COLUMNS
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
by Terence Green
A Vindication of A Vindication
Peter Adamson asks what Mary Wollstonecraft wanted.
Instrumental In Iraq
Seán Moran blows the whistle on Plato’s flautophobia.
Technoimmortalization
Raymond Tallis tells us how (not) to live forever.
REVIEWS
To Be Born: Genesis of a New Human Being by Luce Irigaray
Dharmender Dhillon muses on Luce Irigaray’s best way to make an individual.
Judged by Ziyad Marar
Alexander Hooke judges a book about being judged.
Philosophy For Non-Philosophers by Louis Althusser
Neil Richardson philosophises on what Louis Althusser has to say to non-philosophers.
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
David White takes a long strange trip with Jerry Garcia to watch Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein.
CARTOONS
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Phil Witte’s Cartoon
by Phil Witte
FICTION
At the Existentialist Park
Douglas Groothuis reports an unexpected meeting of minds.