Justin Khoo explains how coded speech is used to subvert social norms.
issue 94
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life: a review
Milhail Evans reads John Gray’s Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life ray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life.
On no, that’s controversial!
Russell Blackford defends the Journal of Controversial Ideas.
The Skeptic
Wendy M. Grossman surveys the pandemic scene.
Whataboutism and “This is not who we are”
John Martin Fischer analyzes two tropes of political debate.
Issue 94 Forum: introduction
The politics of language.
Propaganda
Luvell Anderson discusses what it is and what to do about it.
Calling Philosophers Names
Christopher Moore unearths the meaning of “philosopher”.
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind: a review
Kristin Andrews finds insight in Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Metazoa.
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life: a review
John Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Allen Lane), $24/£20 John Gray’s philosophy might at first glance appear to be quite concerned with animals. Straw Dogs, the book for which he is perhaps best known, had Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals as its sub-title. Yet it was, as […]
Online Communication
Eliot Michaelson, Jessica Pepp, and Rachel Sterken uncover a new speech act.
Alex Guerrero, Off the Beaten Track
An interview by Jean Kazez