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Cover story: Film as philosophy Certainly a film can be philosophical or raise philosophical questions, but can it actually be philosophy? Can it do philosophy? Does Under the Skin have something to say about what it means to be human? Can watching Gravity help us understand our lives? Can seeing Avatar change our minds as surely as a sound argument? Find out in this issue’s forum.
FORUM 73 Longing to be human Dan Shaw 80 Life as a journey Phil Hutchinson 88 Seeing Avatar Rupert Read 95 Films that do philosophy
Thomas E Wartenberg
101 Recommended viewing
Eric Schwitzgebel
REVIEWS 109 Josh Weisberg on Uriah Kriegel’s The
Varieties of Consciousness
111 Steve Hiltz on Harry Frankfurt’s On
Equality
114 Astrida Plenty visits Dismaland
116 Jason Brennan on William MacAskill’s
Doing Good Better
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