Issues
Issue 160: February/March 2024
EDITORIAL
Land of Saints & Scholars
by Tim Madigan
NEWS
News: February/March 2024
Sadly, our news round-up this time is dominated by the deaths of four well-known philosophers. This does at least give us a chance to briefly set out the ideas of these intrepid thinkers. Their overlapping interests and concerns reveal much about the course Continental philosophy took in the shadow of the Cold War and afterwards. — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
IRISH PHILOSOPHY
Thomas Duddy & Irish Philosophy
Tim Madigan travels through time to seek the essential nature of Irish thought.
Irish Philosophy & Me
Catherine Barry charts her journey through historical Irish thought.
Edmund Burke & the Politics of Reform
Jon Langford outlines conservative insights gained from revolutionary failures.
Philip Pettit & The Birth of Ethics
Peter Stone thinks about a thought experiment about how ethics evolved.
Philosophy & Hurling: Thinking & Playing
Stiofán Ó Murchadha on knowing how we know.
Horseplay in Hibernia
Seán Moran explores equine escapades in Eire and elsewhere.
ARTICLES
How to Have a Good Life
Meena Danishmal asks if Seneca’s account of the good life is really practical.
A Philosophical History of Transhumanism
John Kennedy Philip goes deep into the search for (post-) human heights.
Hume’s Problem of Induction
Patrick Brissey exposes a major unprovable assumption at the core of science.
Towards Love
George Mason on love as shared identity.
The Philosophy of Work
Alessandro Colarossi has insights for the bored and understimulated.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Hilarius Bogbinder looks at a man who wanted to make Peace from Warre.
INTERVIEWS
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and a popular writer on linguistics and evolutionary psychology. Angela Tan interviews him about politics, language, death, and reasons to be optimistic.
LETTERS
Letters
Women Respond • Free For All • Not Silent About Zizek • Lucky Guesses • Certainly Uncertain • Move Along
COLUMNS
On Love
AmirAli Maleki looks at love from an Islamic perspective.
G.E. Moore (1873-1958)
by Terence Green
Philosophers on Dogs
by Matt Qvortrup
Cogito, Ergo Sum?
Raymond Tallis has a long-postponed meeting with M. Descartes.
The Discipline of Assent
Massimo Pigliucci tells us to stop impulsively judging.
REVIEWS
The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton
Leonid Bilmes considers the problems we face if we assume our theories match reality.
Sad Love by Carrie Jenkins
Stephen Anderson is sad about modern writings on love.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Shashwat Mishra introduces Ayn Rand’s massive novel promoting self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism.
Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode
Thomas R. Morgan hears more than silence.
CARTOONS
Cameron Harvey’s Cartoon
by Cameron Harvey
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
by Wolfgang Niesielski
Hobbes, Locke, and Very Silly Hats
A comic by Corey Mohler about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world.
FICTION
“Stand Out Of My Light”
Sophie Dibben watches Alexander the Great meet Diogenes the Cynic.
Greek Statue
by Clint Inman