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Issue 167

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Issue 167: April/May 2025

EDITORIAL

Being Human

by Rick Lewis

NEWS

News: April/May 2025

Creator of feminist standpoint theory dies • New study: do babies have moral intuitions? • Time travel with chimpanzees — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

What Does it Mean to be Human?

Vikas Beniwal considers some philosophers’ core understandings.

Empathy & Sympathy

James R. Robinson asks, how do they relate, and how do they differ?

Guilt

Michael Breslin considers the place of guilt in a healthy personality.

Love Letter

Nigel Rapport steps towards a cosmopolitan love.

Hope: Blessing or Curse?

John Creigan considers whether hope helps us thrive or holds us back.

NON-WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad

Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad interviewed by AmirAli Maleki

Karma & Human Freedom

Utkarsh Chawla tells us why we’re in the moral Goldilocks zone.

Indigenous Australian Philosophy

Ross Naidoo looks at Indigenous thinking through a philosophical lens.

ARTICLES

The Philosophy of Pain

Vikky Leaney says pain is a problem even (or especially) when we can’t see it.

Restoring Our Humanity with John Macmurray

Colin Stott contemplates Macmurray’s reunifying thinking.

The Importance of Nature for Thought

Gerardo Posada considers some of the philosophical benefits of green spaces.

Is Morality Objective Or Subjective?

Each answer below receives a random book. Apologies to the entrants not included.

Paulo Freire (1921-1997)

Bruno de Oliveira follows a philosopher of liberation through education.

LETTERS

Letters

Discomforting Reflections • Talking About The Conversation • Talking About Nothing • God Debate Lives On • Metaphors & Money • In The Cyber Cave • The Rain Has Gone, But…

COLUMNS

A Lifelong Preoccupation

Raymond Tallis recalls a life trying to fathom the chasm between mind and brain.

Pyotr Kropotkin (1842-1921)

by Terence Green

Philosophers on Smiles

by Matt Qvortrup

The Goal of Life is Happiness

Massimo Pigliucci surveys the views of ancient schools.

REVIEWS

Prague 22 by Raymond Tallis

Rick Lewis reviews Raymond Tallis’s latest book.

Inner Space Philosophy by James Tartaglia

Artur Szutta explores inner space with James Tartaglia.

The Ethics of the Climate Crisis by Robin Attfield

Lucy Weir thinks about climate ethics with Robin Attfield.

God’s Silence on TV

Hugh Hamilton looks at how God is presented. Spoilers for the shows Lucifer, Preacher and Supernatural ahead.

FICTION

Art the Redeemer

by Paul Hughes

One More

There is a moral dilemma in store for J.C. Michaels.

CARTOONS

Mike Shiell’s Cartoon

by Mike Shiell

Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon (1)

by Harley Schwadron

Simon & Finn

by Melissa Felder

Chris Gill’s Cartoon

by Chris Gill

Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon (2)

by Harley Schwadron

Junio Browning’s Cartoon

by Junio Browning

Lab Mice and the Meaning of Life

A comic by Corey Mohler about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world.

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