General Articles: Articles

Socratic Humility

Glenn Rawson on humility versus arrogance in the Socratic method of philosophy.
[Issue 53: November/December 2005]

How To Be Much Cleverer Than All Your Friends (so they really hate you)

Part II: Being a Superbeing. Study Bayes, says Mike Alder. Cont. from Issue 51.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005]

Can Mythology Save the Miraculous?

Stephen Anderson argues that religion isn’t simply a system of profound myths – it relies on making factual claims which are really true.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005]

Ricoeur’s Negotiated Settlements

Fred Dallmayr on the conciliatory and original Paul Ricoeur, who died in May.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005]

The Bush Disjunction

Paul Keeling on speech acts louder than words.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005]

An Aesthetic Justification of Travel

Lindsay Oishi thinks you should travel to celebrate a particular object of art.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005]

Willing Slaves

by Richard Taylor
[Issue 52: August/September 2005]

The Philosophy of John Lennon

What is it like to be a Beatle? Gary Tillery argues that Lennon’s pronouncements, both cynical and idealistic, reveal a sincere and original thinker.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005]

On Probability & Life’s Little Miracles

Phillip Hoffmann on the importance of the astonishingly improbable.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005]

Is Science Neurotic?

Nicholas Maxwell argues that science misrepresents its own core aim and as a result, suffers from self-deception.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005]

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