General Articles

Hobbes on Good and Evil

Craig Ross on how a philosopher with few illusions made a mistake.
[Issue 54: February/March 2006]

A Way of Thinking About Ethics

Philip Badger on a classroom philosophy experiment and the ideas it provoked.
[Issue 53: November/December 2005]

The Ontological Argument and the Sin of Hubris

Toni Vogel Carey’s answer to the most argued-over argument for the existence of God.
[Issue 53: November/December 2005]

The Machiavelli Inquiry

Casimir Kukielka asks: What might some of history’s most famous practitioners of power politics have thought about the war in Iraq?
[Issue 53: November/December 2005]

Is Skepticism Ridiculous?

Michael Philips asks whether anyone can really believe skeptical arguments.
[Issue 53: November/December 2005]

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]

A Practical Role for Philosophy

Peter Bowden argues that it is not a choice between education or training: both are needed, and across every discipline. The problem is that the sciences are providing education as well as training, but that the departments of philosophy are not providing the training.
[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]

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