Issues
Issue 170: October/November 2025
EDITORIAL
Challenging Times & Moral Issues
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: October/November 2025
Prizes galore for philosophers worldwide • AI says “All your base are belong to us” • Guilt-prone individuals easy to manipulate — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
MORAL ISSUES
De-Extinction: Bringing Back Beasts or Playing God?
John Kennedy Philip revives the ethical debate around resurrecting species.
Forced Vaccination
Naina Krishnamurthy asks if it’s ethical or egregious.
Moral Decision-Making for a Job Search
Norman Schultz wonders when working is wrong.
What My Sister Taught Me About Humanity
Lee Clarke argues that we need a more inclusive view of moral personhood.
Collective Action & Climate Change
Nevin Chellappah says we can’t dodge responsibility by our effects being small.
ARTICLES
The Mediation of Touch
A conversation between Emma Jones and Luce Irigaray.
Macmurray on Relationship
Jeanne Warren presents aspects of John Macmurray’s philosophy of the personal.
Quantum Physics & Indian Philosophy
Punit Kumar and Sanjeev Kumar Varshney look into entangled worlds.
Alchemy, Mining, Speculation & Experimentation
Okan Nurettin Okur investigates the philosophy of chemistry.
Can AI Teach Our Grandmothers To Suck Eggs?
Louis Tempany wonders whether the problem is with the machines or with us.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
John P. Irish considers some principles of history through the history of a historian.
INTERVIEWS
Karl Sigmund
Karl Sigmund is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna. He has made major contributions to evolutionary game theory and to the history of the Vienna Circle, who met regularly in Vienna from 1924-1936. Katharine Mullen talks with him about mathematics, and about the Vienna Circle.
LETTERS
Letters
Sources of Disagreement • Zizek Re-Enunciated • Popper Pops Up • Attention Grabbing • The Beatles Can Get Back • Hope Spreads • Advances via Technology?
COLUMNS
Revisiting the Ontological Argument
Raymond Tallis contends that a definition of God cannot necessitate God’s existence.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
by Terence Green
Philosophers on Chocolate
by Matt Qvortrup
Living According To Nature
Massimo Pigliucci goes back to Nature to seek happiness.
REVIEWS
Medicine Wheel for the Planet by Jennifer Grenz
Lucy Weir takes a wheel of healing for an intellectual spin.
The Roots of Equality by Lantz Miller
Frederik Kaufman examines a theory of the origins of equality.
Irreducible by Federico Faggin
Frank S. Robinson doubts a holistic vision of life, the universe, and everything.
Hit Man
Jason Friend and Lauren Friend discuss reprogramming your self.
FICTION
Anselm’s Proof
by Peter Mullen
The Primates
Samantha Neave visits a future where almost all animals have rights.
CARTOONS
Harley Schwadron’s Cartoon
by Harley Schwadron
Steve Delmonte’s Cartoon
by Steve Delmonte
Simon & Finn
by Melissa Felder
Sound Judgement
by Juno Browning
Guto Dias’ Cartoon
by Guto Dias
Chris Gill’s Cartoon
by Chris Gill