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Issue 170

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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