General Articles: Articles

Why Abstract Painting Isn’t Music

Patricia Railing on the point of abstract art, and on how it works.
[Issue 50: March/April 2005]

“Memorable Philosophy Professors I have Known”

From time to time we’ll be publishing reminiscences about philosophers, selected and compiled by Dana Cook.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005]

Philosophy, Life and Philosophies of Life

Trudy Govier wonders whether the lives of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft tell us anything useful about their ideas.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005]

Justice and Biology, Revisited

Is there a link between biology and ethical behaviour? Alexander E. Hooke takes a look at phrenology and other theories from down the ages. This article is dedicated to Bill Connolly.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005]

Can TV Drag Us Out of Our Cave of Ignorance?

Greg Kitsock takes a look at the philosophical television show No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed and its founder Ken Knisely.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005]

Hilary Putnam on Realism, Truth & Reason

Putnam is one of today’s leading living philosophers. He has changed his ideas repeatedly on some central philosophical problems including the nature of truth. Christopher Norris tells the story so far.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005]

The Psychology & Psychopathology of Philosophers

What makes great thinkers tick? Ralph Blumenau examines some theories.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004]

John Herschel

Toni Vogel Carey on a memorable but forgotten scientist and philosopher.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004]

A Perfumed Philosophy

A dialogue between Marcel Proust and his valet, overheard by Mike Fuller.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004]

Humanism on the Front Line

Douglas Gearhart calls on philosophers to develop practical moral guidance for soldiers in war zones.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004]

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