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Issue 169: August/September 2025

EDITORIAL

How Do You Know?

by Rick Lewis

NEWS

News: August/September 2025

Ethics Goes Awry in Humans and AI • The Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet • Early Adopter of Kierkegaard & Tillich Dies — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE

Xuanzang & the Gettier Problem

Maya Koka journeys through the desert to seek knowledge about knowledge.

The Philosophical Method of Exception

Peter Keeble spotlights and critiques a common philosophical technique.

Popper, Science & Democracy

Brian King follows Popper’s idea of the evolution of knowledge, life and society.

Challenging the Objectivity of Science

Sina Mirzaye Shirkoohi observes science to get the facts straight about it.

Gödel, Wittgenstein, & the Limits of Knowledge

Michael D. McGranahan takes us to the edge of language, mathematics and science.

ARTICLES

The Centennial of the Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial

Tim Madigan on the creation and the evolution of a legend.

A Crisis of Attention

Paul Doolan attends to our culture of attention demanding.

Weltschmerz and the World

Ian James Kidd takes a realistic and global view of the history of pessimism.

The Meaning of a Good Life

Following the sad news of Alasdair MacIntyre’s death recently, AmirAli Maleki argues that he and Miskawayh al-Razi shared a similarly Aristotelian vision of the way to live.

What Makes A Work Of Art Great?

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

Henry Odera Oruka (1944-1995)

Robin Attfield looks at the life of a dedicated promoter of African philosophy.

INTERVIEWS

The Post-Truth Kerfuffle

Susan Haack, who is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts & Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law, at the University of Miami, talks with Angela Tan about how and when we know.

LETTERS

Letters

Mindful Missives on Machines • A Bar For Truth • Let Fly At Fry • Explaining God • A Life of Liberation • Get Them While They’re Hot

COLUMNS

Pharmaco-Metaphysics?

Raymond Tallis argues against acidic assertions, and doubts DMT discoveries.

Susan Stebbing (1885-1943)

by Terence Green

Philosophers on Newspapers

by Matt Qvortrup

Nine Spiritual Exercises

Massimo Pigliucci explains how to get Philo-Sophical.

REVIEWS

Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray

We follow mammal’s search for meaning, as Mark Vorobej savages John Gray’s book of impractical cat philosophy.

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos and Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson

B.V.E. Hyde ponders the point of Jordan Peterson.

The Republic by Plato

In Classics, Hilarius Bogbinder reviews Plato’s Republic.

The Beatles: Nothing is Real

Clinton Van Inman gets back to the psychedelic Sixties.

FICTION

The Epistemology Professor Losing it in Cincinnati

by Paul Dickey

Me, me, me?

Benjamin George Coles finds himself.

CARTOONS

Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon

by Harley Schwadron

Don’t Mill On It

by Juno Browning

Phil Witte’s Cartoon

by Phil Witte

Steve Delmonte’s Cartoon

by Steve Delmonte

Simon & Finn

by Melissa Felder

Plato’s Noble Lie

A strip by Corey Mohler about Plato’s Noble Lie.

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