Issues
Issue 64: November/December 2007
EDITORIAL
Just One More Thing…
by Tim Madigan
NEWS
News: November/December 2007
Philosophy Day Utopia • Krishna and Frede Dead • Half-Human/Half-Rabbit Embryos Given Green Light for Research — News reports by Sue Roberts
POP CULTURE
Operation Rebirth: Captain America and the Ethics of Enhancement
Major Todd A. Burkhardt considers under what circumstances it would be morally right to bioengineer super-soldiers.
Pop Culture: An Overview
Tim Delaney sets the scene for our philosophical consideration of popular stuff.
The Piratical Philosophy of Freedom
David White hoists his mainbrace and shivers his timbers.
The Pop Culture Manifesto
William Irwin on philosophy as/and/of popular culture.
We Get To Carry Each Other: U2 and Kierkegaard on Authentic Love
Mike Austin listens to Bono while reading Kierkegaard, and discovers that they have the same soul.
ARTICLES
A Plague On Both Their Houses
Mary Midgley thinks creationists and evolutionists need to overcome the bewitchment of their own thinking and learn how to talk to each other.
Identity and Freedom in Being and Nothingness
Stephen Wang continues our debate on these essential aspects of being human by considering what Jean-Paul Sartre had to say about them.
Presidential Decision-Making: Utilitarianism vs Duty Ethics
Michael Rockler compares two ethics of statemanship for two American presidents.
Whitehead As Existentialist
Colin Wilson pays attention to Whitehead’s awareness of meaning.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our eighteenth educationally exacting etymological enigma engagingly expressively entwined by Deiradiotes.
LETTERS
Letters
No Character • Tallis and the Missing Self • Gettier Lettier • Illogical Lo • Identity Parade • The Myths of Trainer • Zealotry and Other Sins • Exceptional • Further Kraftiness • Balanced Thinking
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Having traveled from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First Century A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
The Rationalist Dream Come True
by Joel Marks
The Unthinkability of Philosophical Thoughts
Raymond Tallis thinks the deeply unthinkable, as hard as he can.
REVIEWS
Is This Some Kind Of Joke?
Tim Madigan laughs at platypi.
Pop Culture ‘and Philosophy’ Books
John Shelton Lawrence reviews the genre of ‘and philosophy’ books.
Pi and the Movie Mind
A number of recent films deal with mathematics and mathematicians. Can we learn something from them or are they misleading? Peter Stone investigates.
Zizek!
Grant Bartley! investigates the film as a distillation of the man.
FICTION
Immanuel
Kaz Knowlden tells a fishy tale of innocence shattered.