Issues
Issue 80: August/September 2010
EDITORIAL
Being Human
by Grant Bartley
NEWS
News: August/September 2010
’Plato’s musical code’ claim • Blue skies grow cloudy • Forced ops dilemma • Philosopher and wit Anthony Quinton dies — News reports by Sue Roberts
THE HUMAN CONDITION
Can Addicts Help It?
Piers Benn can’t resist finding out.
Can We Be Happy?
Kathleen O’Dwyer sets out to conquer herself, with help from Bertrand Russell.
Laughter is a Time Machine
Mark Weeks sees the funny side of suspended animation.
What Does It Mean To Be Cool?
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein links Stoicism and Hip Hop.
What Makes This Question Funny?
Jeffrey Gordon delivers the punch line.
ARTICLES
An Amoral Manifesto (Part I)
A special extended column from our (erstwhile) Moral Moments columnist Joel Marks.
Compassion & Peace
Michael Allen Fox advocates the seeking of peace through compassion.
Complementarity & Reality
Alistair MacFarlane has complementary ways of looking at things.
Thus Sang The Manic Street Preachers
Leighton Evans takes a Nietzschean perspective on the Manic Street Preachers.
Warning: The Objects in the Photograph are not as Real as they Appear
Matt Randle warns us about seeing the world through a lens darkly.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our thirty-fourth feast of fine philosophical facts fitted together thoughtfully by Deiradiotes.
INTERVIEWS
Robert J. Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer is one of the best known sci-fi authors of today. Nick DiChario talks to him about the philosophical ideas embedded in his books.
LETTERS
Letters
Legal Eagle • Legal Goat • A Memory of Mystery 1 • The Inquisition Continues • Free Will Haiku • A Memory of Mystery 2 • Back To Back • A Back To The Future
COLUMNS
On Xenophobia
Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci.
Okey Doke
Raymond Tallis is illocutionary about the young Wittgenstein’s perlocutions.
REVIEWS
Emerson & Thoreau: Figures of Friendship
Scott F. Parker gets friendly with Emerson & Thoreau.
Out Of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain by Alva Noë
Kurt Keefner tells you why you can’t be only your brain.
Philosophy Through Science Fiction
Liz Stillwaggon Swan thinks through sci fi.
FICTION
Evolution
by Murray Sheldermine
The Museum-going Cannibal
by Yahia Lababidi
Redemption
Abbas Zaidi tells us of the human condition in Lahore.