Issues
Issue 96: May/June 2013
EDITORIAL
Problems With Zombies
by Tim Madigan
NEWS
News: May/June 2013
Sartre’s Gaze Foils Bike Thieves! • Philosophy and the Culture Wars • MOOC Spooks Sages in San Jose — News reports by Sue Roberts
ZOMBIES & PHILOSOPHY
The Zombie Threat to a Science of Mind
Philip Goff discusses a thought-experiment about consciousness.
What’s So Bad About Being A Zombie?
Dien Ho asks if you’d be better off undead.
The Undead Gourmet
Brendan Riley asks: is it okay to kill a zombie just because it wants to eat you?
Eating Your Brain: 21st-Century Zombies
Rebecca Housel on terrorism, evil and Hannah Arendt.
When A Body Meets A Body
Tim Madigan discovers that Jeremy Bentham has risen from the grave!
ARTICLES
Knowledge & Reasons
Joe Cruz gives an evolutionary account of them.
Fortune-Tellers & Causation
Seán Moran won’t be palmed off by talk of backwards causation.
Science and Non-Science
Pamela Irvin Lazorko briefly introduces what demarks science from non-science.
…er than they are: Adventures in Space with Henri Lefebvre
Tom Liam Lynch gives a semi-literal account of writing a literature review that not only addresses the spatialization of literacy, but is written spatially.
Wasps on Autopilot
Katharine Merow asks what’s buzzing around in the head of the Sphex wasp.
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
Alistair MacFarlane on how a poet’s daughter invented the concept of software.
How Can We Eradicate Poverty Whilst Avoiding Environmental Destruction?
The following answers to this timely and vital question each win a random book.
LETTERS
Letters
Pro-Pragmatic Post • Lying To Yourself • Being and Appearance • Authors’ Anti-Matter • Abortions and Misconceptions
COLUMNS
Some Like It Hot
Joel Marks has an amoral moment.
On Naturalism
Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci reports from a workshop.
On Waiting
Raymond Tallis thinks about queuing and milling about.
REVIEWS
Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
Roger Caldwell is unconvinced by Terry Eagleton’s loyal support for Marx.
Answers For Aristotle by Massimo Pigliucci
Kenneth Shouler says Massimo Pigliucci gives Aristotle some good answers.
Zombie Movie Morals (I)
Peter Stone thinks zombie films are about co-operation.
Zombie Movie Morals (II)
Sarah Stone draws lessons about leadership.
CARTOONS
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
You Are Here
by Chris Madden
Chris Gill’s Cartoon (1)
by Chris Gill
Chris Gill’s Cartoon (2)
by Chris Gill