Back Issues
Issue 61
May/June 2007
EDITORIAL
Human Futures
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
HUMAN FUTURES
Enhancing Humanity
Ray Tallis peers into the future, without fear.
Space Exploration: Humanity’s Single Most Important Moral Imperative 
Dr E. R. Klein says we should reconsider the value of space exploration and start getting ready to leave the nest.
Gay Adoption
Brenda Almond on why the gay adoption debate isn’t really about sexual morality.
What Do We Mean By Security?
Mary Midgley argues that Security is not about the size of your military.
After The Humans Are Gone
Eric Dietrich looks forward to the extinction of humanity.
OTHER ARTICLES
Being and Becoming
Christopher Macann explains the basis of his ‘genetic’ system of phenomenology.
Sartre and the Waiter
Carl Murray sees things from an Other point of view.
Kant On Suicide
Paul Edwards disagrees with Kant in this recently-discovered paper.
More Happiness Please
If we think carefully about our decisions, we’ll wind up living better lives, right? Jean Kazez asks this question in response to three recent books about happiness.
The Bits In Between
John Shand reads between the lines.
OBITUARIES
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
Philippe Le Pers reports after the death of the ‘photographer’ philosopher.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our fifteenth phantasmogorial philosophical philological frenzy funkily fused together by Deiradiotes.
QUESTION OF THE MONTH
What Is The Nature Of Reality?
The following readers’ answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book.
LETTERS
Opinions on Research Responsibilities, Weight On Your Mind, Good and Evol and more...
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers’ questions.
Moral Moments: Who Are You?
by Joel Marks
Food for Thought: Aristotle’s Email – Or, Friendship In The Cyber Age
Tim Madigan ponders the mysteries of friendship.
BOOKS
Moreel Esperanto by Paul Cliteur
Floris van den Berg takes a course in Paul Cliteur’s moral Esperanto.
The Kantianism of Hegel and Nietzsche by Robert Zimmerman
Lesley Chamberlain wants to rescue Kant from an interesting book by Robert Zimmerman.
FILMS
The Western as Philosophy
Revisiting the Western convinces Thomas Wartenberg that historical progress is not just a simple question of good heroically triumphing over evil.
FICTION
Double Bubble
Alistair Fruish deals you the straight dope.