Back Issues
Issue 64
November/December 2007
EDITORIAL
Just One More Thing…
by Tim Madigan
NEWS
POP CULTURE
Pop Culture: An Overview
Tim Delaney sets the scene for our philosophical consideration of popular stuff.
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.
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.
The Piratical Philosophy of Freedom
David White hoists his mainbrace and shivers his timbers.
OTHER ARTICLES
Presidential Decision-Making: Utilitarianism vs Duty Ethics
Michael Rockler compares two ethics of statemanship for two American presidents.
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.
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.
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
Opinions on Tallis and the Missing Self, Illogical Lo, The Myths of Trainer and more...
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers’ questions.
Moral Moments: The Rationalist Dream Come True
by Joel Marks
The Unthinkability of Philosophical Thoughts
Raymond Tallis thinks the deeply unthinkable, as hard as he can.
BOOKS
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.
FILMS
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.