Issues
Issue 149: April/May 2022
EDITORIAL
A Serious Matter
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: April/May 2022
Ukrainian philosopher’s 300th birthday • AI shows increasing ethical problems • Qubit pioneer David Deutsch wins prize — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
The Causes of Peace
Dan Corjescu looks briefly but hopefully at possible causes of peace.
‘The Lottery’ & Locke’s Politics
John P. Irish considers social contract theory through an infamous lottery.
A Map of Political Ideas
Phil Badger draws the boundaries of political thought and explores the territories.
Cultural Colonialism & Aesthetic Injustice
Gustavo Dalaqua on decolonizing minds.
Revolt & Complacency
Stefan Catana on three revolutionary thinkers and their ideas for creating progress in politics.
ARTICLES
Robert Nozick’s Metaverse Machine
Lorenzo Buscicchi asks, would you plug into Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual world? He finds that the question has been considered by philosophers for decades.
The Golden State Killer & Deleuze’s ‘Dividual’
Angela Dennis computes the use and abuse of digital data.
The Goodness of Existence
Jarlath Cox says whether life brings pleasure or pain, the value of being born is the ability to experience at all.
What Is Truth?
Richard Oxenberg on the need for an old paradigm, especially in ethics.
Paradox Lost
Paul Tissier argues that Russell’s Paradox isn’t really a paradox.
Diogenes the Cynic (c.404-323 BC)
Martin Jenkins recalls what we know for sure about the philosopher in the barrel.
What is a Person?
Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to the entrants not included.
INTERVIEWS
Duane Rousselle
Duane Rousselle is a Canadian professor of sociological theory, author, and a practicing psychoanalyst. He reports to Julie Reshe on recent mutations in postmodern ideology.
LETTERS
Letters
Relatively Different • Brief Struggles • Evil Ideas • Virtually Descartes • Irish Murdoch • ‘We’ and ‘They’ Are One • More Meaningful Messages • No Time Except the Present
COLUMNS
Karl Popper (1902-1994)
by Terence Green
Philosophers on War & Peace
by Matt Qvortrup
Looking to the Past
Peter Adamson on when philosophers write history.
Perception as a Controlled Hallucination
Raymond Tallis argues against calling everyday experience a ‘hallucination’.
REVIEWS
Freedom: An Impossible Reality by Raymond Tallis
This issue we consider ultimate human realities as Raymond Tallis has the intention of proving free will.
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman gives a hopeful spin on our species.
Beyond Bad by Chris Paley
Chris Paley wants us to leave morality behind completely.
Androids At The Cinema
Alessandro Colarossi looks at how Hollywood draws and blurs the line between human and machine.
CARTOONS
Guto Dias’ Cartoon
by Guto Dias
Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon (1)
by Harley Schwadron
Chris Gill’s Cartoon (1)
by Chris Gill
Chris Gill’s Cartoon (2)
by Chris Gill
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon (2)
by Harley Schwadron
FICTION
The Determined Will
Stephen Brewer’s couple are determined to argue about free will.
The Global Village
by Boghos Artinian
Sour
by Emma Freudig