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Author: "Michael Philips"

Is Skepticism Ridiculous?

Michael Philips asks whether anyone can really believe skeptical arguments.
[Issue 53: November/December 2005: Articles]

Physicalism & Empathetic Understanding

Michael Philips argues that the possibility of empathy is incompatible with the idea that the world is physical through and through.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005: Empathy]

What is Materialism?

Michael Philips on the shaky foundations of the most popular philosophical theory of modern times.
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Philosophy & the Paranormal]

Do Computers Have Syntax?

Michael Philips on the question of whether computers can think.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003: Articles]

Mirroring without Metaphysics

Michael Philips on truth and the Correspondence Theory.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: Articles]

Money Talk

“Loan”? “Borrow”? “Growth”? “Seed money”? Michael Philips finds such talk hard to credit.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002: Articles]

Can Philosophy Rescue the Art World?

When you cut up a work of art, do you destroy it or create lots of smaller works of art? Michael Philips investigates.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Articles]

The World as it is in Itself Revisited

Michael Philips thinks that intelligent aliens could help us sort out the problem of what we can know, by providing a useful new point of view.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002: Articles]

Moral Luck and Moral Theory

Michael Philips asks whether you have to be lucky in order to be good.
[Issue 32: June/July 2001: Articles]

Preference Satisfaction and the Good

Michael Philips wonders what you really, really want.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Articles]