Philosophy Now - June/July 2025

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June/July 2025

Ethics for the Age of AI

Mahmoud Khatami asks, can machines make good moral decisions?

10 mins

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.

10+ mins

Studying Smarter with AI?

Max Gottschlich on sense and nonsense when using AI in academia.

5 mins

Affirmative Action for Androids

Jimmy Alfonso Licon asks, when should we prioritise android rights?

10+ mins

Is VR Meaningful Escapism?

Amir Haj-Bolouri enquires into possible meaning through technology.

9 mins

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.

8 mins

Welcome to the Civilization of the Liar's Paradox

Slavoj Žižek uncovers political paradoxes of lying.

10+ mins

What Simone de Beauvoir Got — And Didn't Get – About Motherhood

Nura Hossainzadeh argues that motherhood is both physical and transcendent.

10+ mins

Young & Meaningful

Elise Beal notes a Japanese philosophy of finding pleasure in the small things, and matches it with an online trend.

6 mins

Is Laughter Liberating or Cruel?

Alfie Bown investigates different categories of laughter. investigates different categories of laughter.

8 mins

The Functions of Humor in Writing

Omar Sabbagh contemplates the use of humor, in fiction, and in life.

7 mins

The Importance of the Purple

Massimo Pigliucci looks for threads of integrity in a morally compromised world.

3 mins

PERFECT DAYS

Thomas E. Wartenberg focuses on a path to happiness.

6 mins

Excusing God

Raymond Tallis highlights the problem of evil.

7 mins

Anand Vaidya (1976-2024)

Manjula Menon on the short but full career of a 'disciplinary trespasser'.

7 mins

René Descartes Loses His Phone

Judah Crow follows Descartes as he seeks that which one must have always.

7 mins

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Philosophy Now is a lively, international newsstand magazine for everyone interested in ideas. It aims to corrupt innocent citizens by convincing them that philosophy can be exciting, worthwhile and comprehensible, and also to provide some light and enjoyable reading matter for those already ensnared by the muse, such as philosophy students and academics.

Philosophy Now appears every two months. It contains articles on all aspects of Western philosophy, as well as book reviews, letters, news, cartoons, and the occasional short story.

Since its small-scale launch in Britain in 1991, Philosophy Now has grown to become the most widely-read philosophy periodical in the English language. Philosophy Now is independent of all groups and has no intentional editorial bias except for a passionate conviction that philosophy is a Good Thing.