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Off-The-Peg Offspring in the Genetic Supermarket

Colin Gavaghan asks how seriously we should take Gattaca’s dread of genetic screening.
[Issue 22: Winter 1998/99]

Ockham, Hume & Epistemic Wisdom

William Grey launches an all-out attack on the paranormal armed with a couple of razors honed with the whetstone of scepticism.
[Issue 21: Summer/Autumn 1998]

Appeal to the Intellectuals of the World

by Obrad Savic
[Issue 21: Summer/Autumn 1998]

The Philosopher as Lover

Continuing our series of personal interpretations of philosophy, Peter Rickman extols the passionate philosopher.
[Issue 21: Summer/Autumn 1998]

The discarded Lemon: Kant, prostitution and respect for persons

Timothy J. Madigan thinks Kant’s duty-based ethics could approve of prostitution.
[Issue 21: Summer/Autumn 1998]

Virtue ethics and the New Testament

Which matter most: virtues or duties? Bob Harrison thinks the early Christians had the answer.
[Issue 21: Summer/Autumn 1998]

What is natural about Natural Rights?

Do Natural Rights exist? Michael Birshan investigates one of the more persistent political assertions of the modern world in this prize-winning essay.
[Issue 21: Summer/Autumn 1998]

Drinks & Thinks

More news from the philosophy cafés and pubs, compiled by Bryn Williams.
[Issue 21: Summer/Autumn 1998]

Sick to Death?

Is suicide a disease to be treated, or a choice to be respected? Justin Busch tackles the problem by analysing the concept of disease.
[Issue 20: Spring 1998]

Ralph Blumenau argues that there is more to the doctrine of predestination than we might think. To support his theory he looks back to the teaching of Original Sinner St. Augustine.
[Issue 20: Spring 1998]

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