Tag: "metaphysics"

Might You Not Have Been You?

J.J.C. Smart on cricket and counterfactuals.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Articles]

Leibniz and the Leaves: Beyond Identity

Angels, humans, the leaves on a tree; is each one unique or just an example of its kind? Peter Pesic explains why Leibniz thought even leaves are individuals.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Articles]

Astrophysics & the Question of Sample Size

Michael Philips on the search for cosmic laws and theories.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000: Articles]

Richard Rorty

by Gideon Calder
[Issue 29: October/November 2000: The Library of Living Philosophers]

Restaurant Metaphysics

Mark Leech on causality and coffee.
[Issue 27: June/July 2000: Humour]

Killing Time

Cliff Stagoll on the strange case of John McTaggart, who didn’t believe in time.
[Issue 20: Spring 1998: Articles]

What’s Out There?

Edward Ingram visits Roboworld.
[Issue 18: Summer 1997: Articles]

Thanks for the Memories

Trevor Emmott explains why ‘acts of will’ may exist after all.
[Issue 17: Spring 1997: Articles]

The World Well-Found

Some say the world is an illusion. Postmodernists claim it is a culturally-constructed ‘interpretation’. In a groundbreaking rebuttal of these sceptics, Susan Feldman argues that the world is just too irritating not to be real.
[Issue 16: Autumn 1996: Articles]

Ontology for Beginners

…have some ‘isms’!
[Issue 16: Autumn 1996: Articles]

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