Issues
Issue 132: June/July 2019
EDITORIAL
The Impossible Issue
by Anja Steinbauer
NEWS
News: June/July 2019
Wasp Logic • Euro Robo Rules • Yale scientists playing in God’s domain — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
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.
Impermanence
Hiroshi Satow remains placid in the face of change.
Is Karma a Law of Nature?
It seems Matthew Gindin is destined to ask, and answer, this question.
ARTICLES
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.
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.
Artificial Consciousness: Our Greatest Ethical Challenge
Paul Conrad Samuelsson takes the perspective of the computer for a change.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659-1719)
Martin Jenkins considers the way of the samurai.
Positively Powerful
Anushka Bhaskar (18) & Anchal Bhaskar (16) are positive about positive thinking.
OBITUARIES
Mary Warnock (April 14, 1924 - March 20, 2019)
by Tim B-Gray
INTERVIEWS
Joerg Tuske
Anja Steinbauer talks to a philosophy professor in the West who studies classical Indian philosophy.
LETTERS
Letters
Remarks Re: Marx • Looking@Locke • Free For All • Wrong Footed On Ought v Is • Making Not Much of a Difference • Ethics of Future Groups • Elements of Spinoza • A Stand on Rand • Artful Dodging • Plumb This
COLUMNS
Confucius (c.551-479 BCE)
by Terence Green
A Passage to India
Peter Adamson crosses continents, cultures and concepts.
Secure in Sindh
Seán Moran gets to grips with guards.
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.
CARTOONS
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Confucius
by Kenneth White
Jon Carter’s Cartoon
by Jon Carter
FICTION
Solid Ground
by Clinton Van Inman
The Parable of the Atheist and the Logical Positivist
Michael Langford drops in on the afterlife for an argument about personal identity.