Issue 122: October/November 2017

EDITORIAL

by Grant Bartley

NEWS

Philosophic Park: Beware of Intellectual Dinosaurs! • Robot Council jerks into motion • Scientists tamper with the stuff of life (again) — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

SOCRATES, PLATO AND MODERN LIFE

Mark Vernon sees Plato in an old light.

Matt Bluemink uses a Socratic argument to assess the influence of the net on our brains and our minds.

Lillian Wilde contemplates what love means.

Spencer Klavan proclaims Socrates’ revolutionary answer to Nietzsche and Trump.

Jenni Jenkins argues, probably not.

ARTICLES

Stuart Greenstreet wonders why Cubist communication failed to catch on.

Francisco Mejia Uribe asks if democracy can overcome fundamentalism.

Dana Andreicut wonders whether, or not, to escape into the Matrix.

Emil Asplund & Erik Gustavsson try to find the truth about medication.

Anthony McWatt explores the philosophical ideas underlying the culture-changing 1970s blockbuster Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Alistair MacFarlane considers the modes of life of a conservative philosopher.

INTERVIEWS

In a London café, Anja Steinbauer chats with the philosopher who invented the word ‘idiosyncratic’.

LETTERS

Conscious Correspondence • Sceptical About Skepticism • No Madness in Philosophy Now • Dissonance Dissidence • Time & Time Again • Epistemically Essential Epistles

COLUMNS

by Terence Green

Peter Adamson finds Socrates speaking for everyone else.

Seán Moran considers holy war in Lahore.

Raymond Tallis tries to fit everything in, in time.

REVIEWS

Lachlan Dale explores some of the philosophical implications of Tibetan Buddhism.

Vincent Di Norcia looks at various approaches to ecological ethics.

Terri Murray scrutinises a feminist film about a woman who desires her rapist. Warning: SPOILERS

CARTOONS

by Melissa Felder

by Chris Gill

by Cameron Harvey

FICTION

Ray Liikanen overhears a modern-day Socratic dialogue.