Fiction: Fiction

What is Freedom?

Vincent Kavaloski modernises Plato’s allegory of the Cave.
[Issue 136: February/March 2020]

Trump & Arendt Debate The Wall: Fictive Questions, Real Answers

Rayyan Dabbous pieces together a fictional debate using real quotes from Donald Trump, POTUS, and Hannah Arendt, political philosopher.
[Issue 135: December 2019 / January 2020]

Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill worked for the British East India Company for 35 years. Long after Mill’s death, Gandhi led India to independence. Eugene Alper imagines a meeting of these two great political thinkers.
[Issue 133: August/September 2019]

Being-With-Significant-Others

Sebastian Richardson eavesdrops on Martin Heidegger’s relationship counselling.
[Issue 130: February/March 2019]

The Light From Our Eyes

Stephen Brewer wonders what’s in the (mind’s) eye of the beholder.
[Issue 129: December 2018 / January 2019]

At the Existentialist Park

Douglas Groothuis reports an unexpected meeting of minds.
[Issue 128: October/November 2018]

What Is It Like To Be A Bot?

Keith Frankish asks if it’s possible to know whether humans, or robots, have minds.
[Issue 126: June/July 2018]

Philosophy Incarnate

Sheldon Currie watches Socrates take on the modern academy.
[Issue 120: June/July 2017]

On Sympathy: A Dream Dialogue

Robert R. Clewis dreams about sympathy.
[Issue 119: April/May 2017]

A Conversation With Simone Weil

Elisabetta Rombi talks social justice and love with the revolutionary philosopher.
[Issue 118: February/March 2017]

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