Issues
Issue 166: February/March 2025
EDITORIAL
We Need To Talk
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: February/March 2025
World Logic Day celebrated here and there • Most folk think they know enough to judge • Don Cupitt, Sea of Faith theologian, dies — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Trust, Truth & Political Conversations
Adrian Brockless wants a recognition of human value in political debate.
Success & Luck
Carlo Filice argues that we should share our success, even if it’s hard earned, because we often don’t deserve it as much as we’d like to think.
The Material Creation of Freedom
Stephen Martin Fritz & Denise Morel contemplate what creates democracy.
Philosophy & The Crown
Vincent Di Norcia on monarchy and stability.
Philosophers & Immigration Control
Edward Hall argues that philosophers of immigration are not thinking it through.
ARTICLES
Technologists & Ethicists
Stephen L. Anderson laments inadequate moral insight among tech leaders.
The Fire This Time
Tim Madigan on Ray Bradbury, Bertrand Russell and Fahrenheit 451.
Thomas Aquinas on Extraterrestrial Life
Babatunde Onabajo tells us why Aquinas did not believe in aliens.
Plants & Philosophy
Caroline Deforche sees similarities between gardening and philosophising.
Wordsworth & Darwin
Christine Avery wonders whether poetry can help us to deal with science.
Pythagoras (570-495 BCE)
Daniel Toré looks beyond the mathematician to the philosopher.
INTERVIEWS
Dr. Gindi
Dr. Gindi, sculptor, has a philosophical conversation with Richard Baron about sensation, life, infinity and, you guessed it, sculpture.
LETTERS
Letters
The Atheists Strike Back • A Goff of Limited Power • Since You Asked • The Problem Is The Medium • Ducking Responsibility • What About Compassion?
COLUMNS
On Women
AmirAli Maleki considers how Islamic thought changed.
Jürgen Habermas (1929-)
by Terence Green
Philosophers on Cars
by Matt Qvortrup
Random Thoughts on Luck
Raymond Tallis finds he’s an improbably accidental being.
On Making Moral Progress
Massimo Pigliucci tells us how to advance ethically.
REVIEWS
The Universal History of Us by Tim Coulson
Grant Bartley replies philosophically to a scientific history of everything.
The Necessity of Exile by Shaul Magid
Rachel R. Rosner responds to new concepts of exile.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Sandra Woien interrogates a famous Soviet-era satire.
Falling Down
Thomas R. Morgan considers how personal identity is maintained, and how it is lost.
FICTION
The Smart Shoppers
Joe R.R. Angelitis overhears a heated political discussion in aisle fifty-one.
Besieged
by Omar Sabbagh
CARTOONS
Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon (1)
by Harley Schwadron
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon (2)
by Harley Schwadron
Guto Dias’ Cartoon
by Guto Dias
Steve Delmonte’s Cartoon
by Steve Delmonte
Junio Browning’s Cartoon
by Junio Browning