Published: October 2026
Pages: 76
General Editor: James Andow
Reviews Editor: rémy-paulin twahirwa
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This issue is a collection of philosophical essays and reviews. It does not have a theme. Or at least not one that comes pre-packaged and advertised on the cover. 
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Chloe Romanis begins by considering a world of ectogestation, in which procreation occurs without pregnancy, arguing that this thought experiment can help clarify what we do – or should – value in pregnancy itself. Questions of how we understand ourselves and our social practices also shape Jorge Sanchez-Perez’s contribution. Drawing on his work in pre-colonial Andean philosophy, he argues that genuine attempts to diversify the philosophical canon require careful attention to the theoretical and methodological challenges such diversification entails. Laura Cecile Moore’s essay examines the distinction between art and craft, attempting to disentangle the concepts and their theoretical and practical significance. Asking what philosophy can do when humanity fails to rise in protest against injustice and discrimination, Meena Dhanda argues for the importance of what Wittgenstein called ‘assembling reminders’. In ‘Do We Hold Ideas or Are We Held by Them?’, Grace Theodoly reflects on psychological experiments that suggest ideas may be harder to resist than we ordinarily recognise, complicating aspirations to neutrality and detached judgement. Aanuoluwapo F. Sunday turns to the Yoruba virtue of Ìkóra È. ni Ní Ìjanu, considering how it might help reframe debates between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric approaches in environmental ethics. Tanya de Villiers-Botha examines the prospect of creating human-level artificial intelligence, outlining a range of ethical questions that demand attention before such a project could responsibly be pursued. Helga Varden’s extended essay, 'Doing Philosophy as a (Kantian) Pariah’, confronts the tensions involved in working within a Kantian tradition while seeking to re-envision and transform it.
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Our reviews section similarly explores questions about the purpose and significance of intellectual and cultural work. Freya Gerz considers two recent contributions to film studies, highlighting how they challenge the assumption that cinema is politically serious only when it instructs us clearly. Annalena Oppel reflects on the legacies of decolonial struggle in our present ‘postcolonial’ moment, where knowledge and praxis never fully align and sometimes meet at a ‘cliff edge’.
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One theme running through these contributions, then, is reflection on the value of philosophical and wider intellectual enquiry, and how to do it well. But you’ll probably spot others too.