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Digital Freedom

Roberta Fischli & Thomas Beschorner argue that our digital future is not preprogrammed: it’s about time we start thinking about what it should look like.
[Issue 151: August/September 2022]

Was Spinoza Actually An Atheist?

Kenneth Novis says the case hinges on how you define ‘God’.
[Issue 151: August/September 2022]

The Enticing Light of Progress

Helena Moradi asks if the promise of pure progress is problematic.
[Issue 150: June/July 2022]

Advertising is Immoral

Peter Gildenhuys says many adverts are saturated with sophistry.
[Issue 150: June/July 2022]

Gender as Biological Fact vs Gender as Social Construction

Francisco Javier Camacho Jr asks, what difference does it make?
[Issue 150: June/July 2022]

Zhuangzi, Language & Gender

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein asks what Daoist sages might have thought about PC.
[Issue 150: June/July 2022]

Wittgenstein Plays Snooker

Peter Mullen reproduces part of Wittgenstein’s lost work, Bemerkungen Uber Die Grundsätzlichkeit Des Snooker.
[Issue 150: June/July 2022]

Robert Nozick’s Metaverse Machine

Lorenzo Buscicchi asks, would you plug into Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual world? He finds that the question has been considered by philosophers for decades.
[Issue 149: April/May 2022]

The Golden State Killer & Deleuze’s ‘Dividual’

Angela Dennis computes the use and abuse of digital data.
[Issue 149: April/May 2022]

The Goodness of Existence

Jarlath Cox says whether life brings pleasure or pain, the value of being born is the ability to experience at all.
[Issue 149: April/May 2022]

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