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The Philosophers’ Ship

In 1922 Lenin sent Russia’s best philosophers off on a cruise and told them not to come home unless they wanted to be shot. Alexander Razin and Tatiana Sidorina describe a ‘humanitarian act’ by a totalitarian regime.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001]

Intelligent Design: a Catechism

How did life on Earth come about? Recently the buzzword among those dissatisfied with Darwinism has been ‘Intelligent Design’. But isn’t this just another name for Creationism? Not so, argues Todd Moody.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001]

The Reproductive Psychology of Inanimate Objects

Edward Ingram thinks your television is manipulating you.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001]

Why Should I Care About Morality?

Arnold Zuboff keeps asking a dangerous question – whether anyone has any real reason to act morally. He thinks it has led him to a new basis for ethics.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001]

Philosophy & Disability: an overview

Anita Silvers describes a booming area of philosophical enquiry and explains how considering the perspectives of the disabled can help philosophy in general.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001]

The Mark of Zombie

These days philosophers of mind talk a lot about zombies, to illustrate ideas about the nature of consciousness. Edward Ingram thinks they are all crazy.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001]

The Many Worlds of David Deutsch

Why do some physicists now believe that there are many parallel universes very like our own? And if there are, how will this help us build faster computers?
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001]

Might You Not Have Been You?

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

You Won’t Know the Difference So You Can’t Make the Choice

says Robin Beck
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001]

The Sound of Action

In the latest in our series of personal views of philosophy, Lisa Kemmerer describes how thinking changes lives…
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001]

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