Issues
Issue 162: June/July 2024
EDITORIAL
The Search for Meaning
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: June/July 2024
Last days of Plato revealed in new scroll • Philosophy dept chair arrested at protest • No future for Future of Humanity Institute — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
THE SEARCH FOR MEANING
Philosophers Exploring The Good Life
Jim Mepham quests with philosophers to discover what makes a life good.
The Present Is Not All There Is To Happiness
Rob Gilbert says don’t just live in the now.
What Is Life Worth?
Michael Allen Fox wonders whether life really is ‘a precious gift’.
Frankl & Sartre in Search of Meaning
Georgia Arkell compares logotherapy and atheistic existentialism.
Finding Meaning in Suffering
Patrick Testa on the extraordinary hope offered by Viktor Frankl.
Significance
Ruben David Azevedo tells us why, in a limitless universe, we’re not insignificant.
ARTICLES
From Postmodernism to Metamodernism
Christina Aziz asks whether metanarratives still matter, and if so, how.
Abelard & Carneades: Yes & No
Frank Breslin says ‘yes and no’ to presenting both sides of an argument.
Reality, Humanity & AI
Nafees Malik surveys our quest for truth, and asks if AI can help us discover more.
Is Driving Fossil-Fuelled Cars Immoral?
Rufus Duits asks when we can justify driving our carbon contributors.
Heraclitus (c. 500 BC)
Harry Keith lets flow a stream of ideas about permanence and change.
OBITUARIES
Daniel C. Dennett (1942-2024)
Dan Hutto bids farewell to a friendly giant of philosophy.
INTERVIEWS
Luce Irigaray
Luce Irigaray interviewed by Octave Larmagnac-Matheron and translated by Mélanie Salvi.
LETTERS
Letters
Literature is Vital • Passion For Peace! • The Thinker & The Thoughts • Formulating Science • Culture & Its Changes • Which Love, Anyway?
COLUMNS
Noam Chomsky (1928-)
by Terence Green
Philosophers on Cheese
by Matt Qvortrup
Does the Cosmos Have a Purpose?
Raymond Tallis argues intently against universal intention.
Three Types of Philosophy Text
Massimo Pigliucci organizes his library.
REVIEWS
The Crisis of Culture by Olivier Roy
Théo Blanc draws on recent French philosophy to explore an idea of culture in crisis.
Sophie’s World: A Graphic Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder, Vincent Zabus & Nicoby
Scott Parker reads a graphic novel version of Sophie’s World.
The Exorcist: Believer
Susan Hopkins is horrified, but in a thoughtful way.
CARTOONS
Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
by Wolfgang Niesielski
Jonny Hawkins’ Cartoon
by Jonny Hawkins
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon (1)
by Harley Schwadron
Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon (2)
by Harley Schwadron
Sartrean Freedom
A comic by Corey Mohler about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world.
FICTION
A Philosopher’s Life
by Dylan Skurka
The Two Dennises
Hannah Mortimer observes a close encounter of the same kind.