In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Philosophy now

• Ethics for the Age of AI
  Mahmoud Khatami asks, can machines make good moral decisions?
• Rescuing Mind from the Machines
  Vincent J. Carchidi agrees with Descartes and friends that our ability to use language creatively distinguishes our minds from computers.
• Studying Smarter with AI?
  Max Gottschlich on sense and nonsense when using AI in academia.
• Affirmative Action for Androids
  Jimmy Alfonso Licon asks, when should we prioritise android rights?
• Is VR Meaningful Escapism?
   Amir Haj-Bolouri enquires into possible meaning through technology.
• Stephen Fry
  Perhaps unshockingly for someone who is an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer, Stephen Fry has a deep interest in words and how we use them. After hearing him lecture on that subject, Marcel Steinbauer-Lewis asked him about Artificial Intelligence and how it connects with the extraordinary lure of language.
• Welcome to the Civilization of the Liar’s Paradox
  Slavoj Žižek uncovers political paradoxes of lying.
• What Simone de Beauvoir Got – And Didn’t Get – About Motherhood
  Nura Hossainzadeh argues that motherhood is both physical and transcendent.
• Young & Meaningful
  Elise Beal notes a Japanese philosophy of finding pleasure in the small things, and matches it with an online trend.
• Is Laughter Liberating or Cruel?
  Alfie Bown investigates different categories of laughter.
• The Functions of Humor in Writing
   Omar Sabbagh contemplates the use of humor, in fiction, and in life.
• Letters
  When inspiration strikes, don’t bottle it up. Email me at rick.lewis@philosophynow.org Keep them short and keep them coming!
• The Importance of the Purple
  Massimo Pigliucci looks for threads of integrity in a morally compromised world.
• Books
  We search for freedom this issue, as Kevin Currie points out the many varieties of liberalism, and Philip Badger questions Robert Sapolsky’s determinism.
• PERFECT DAYS
   Thomas E. Wartenberg focuses on a path to happiness.
• Excusing God
  Raymond Tallis highlights the problem of evil.
• Anand Vaidya (1976-2024)
  Manjula Menon on the short but full career of a ‘disciplinary trespasser’.
• René Descartes Loses His Phone
  Judah Crow follows Descartes as he seeks that which one must have always.