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A Critique of Antinatalism
Deniz Kose thinks there’s good reasons to want human life to continue.
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Making Omelettes & A Future Like Ours
Jimmy Alfonso Licon wonders what’s wrong with killing – first chickens, then humans.
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Death as Life’s Picture Frame
Joshua Clements puts us in the picture.
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EXISTENTIAL COMICS
A strip by Corey Mohler on the Death of Socrates
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Who Wants to Live Forever?
Dan Pollen weighs up the pros and cons of indefinitely extended life.
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Immortality & A Galactic Future
Andy Yee looks forward to humanity’s technological ascension.
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Jürgen Habermas: Defender of the Enlightenment
Patrick West on postmodernism and communicative reason.
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Breakfast with Habermas
Matt Qvortrup recalls chat over coffee and scrambled eggs with a champion of reasoned debate.
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Margalit & Limits to Political Compromise
Laure Gillot-Assayag reflects on the political philosophy of Avishai Margalit.
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Great Minds, Flawed Lives
Tony Shenton asks, should we cancel the compromised intellectual, or read them?
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What’s the Value of Mountaineering?
Suleyman Moollan wonders why people climb mountains.
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Why Sport Needs Good & Evil
Kola Adeosun & Ato Kenya Rockcliffe on the dynamics of sporting greatness.
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Interview
Antonio Negri (1933-2023) was an Italian political philosopher who in his time courted controversy, and was even jailed for links with Communist organisations. Leonardo Caffo talked with him about the future of the Left.
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Carl Schmitt (1888-1985)
Marco Pandolfini on the ideas of a highly contentious legal theorist.
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Nexus
Frank S. Robinson ponders our AI future while Priya Muthukannan studies a philosophy of compassion. In our Classics review, Teresa Candeias reads Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem.
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Star Trek: Enterprise
Sofia Villaweaver asks, what kind of future do we want – Gene Roddenberry’s, or Friedrich Nietzsche’s?
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Cut-Price Dualism: ‘Properties Not Substances’
Raymond Tallis says a modern modified mind-body dualism still doesn’t work.
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The Delphic Injunctions
Massimo Pigliucci philosophises about prophetic principles.
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The Tragic Destiny of Life on Earth
Grant Bartley regrets ever getting into a time machine.