General Articles: Articles

The Problem of Dismissing Induction

The problem of induction, pointed out by David Hume, continues to baffle scientists and philosophers. Theo Clark explains why.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002]

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]

Only Joking?

Last year Laurence Goldstein stepped down from his post as head of the ever-turbulent Philosophy Department at the University of Wales Swansea, following a battery of allegations made by three of his colleagues and a complaint that he had told jokes ‘with sexual overtones’ at a departmental Christmas party. He, and other colleagues who left at the same time, were unwilling to continue working in a department where, for years, brutal hostility has prevailed. On the plus side, however, the experience did inspire him to write this article.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002]

The True Believer Revisited

Tim Madigan on September 11th and on a longshoreman who understood the psychology of mass movements.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002]

Induction: The Problem Solved

In our second contribution on the problem of induction, John Shand argues that there is no problem, because there is no such thing as an inductive argument.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002]

Heaven and Earth: An Awkward History

Mary Midgley on our changing views of our own planet, and the story they tell about the changing nature of rationality.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002]

Wittgenstein’s Significance

Mark Cain on the 50th anniversary of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s death.
[Issue 33: September/October 2001]

The Man on the Clapham Omnibus Revisited

Who is this semi-mythical figure, and what does he really think? Tim Madigan decided that there was only one way to find out…
[Issue 33: September/October 2001]

The Ethics of Tit-for-Tat

Massimo Pigliucci on game theory, rational egoism and the evolution of fairness.
[Issue 33: September/October 2001]

Carpal Knowledge

Raymond Tallis on the natural philosophy of the caress. It’s gripping stuff!
[Issue 33: September/October 2001]

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