General Articles

Euthanasia Debate: Counterpoint (I)

Joachim Jung’s reply to Tim Chappell.
[Issue 40: March/April 2003]

Earth to Russell

Chad Trainer on the limits of Russell’s views on space exploration.
[Issue 40: March/April 2003]

Using the F-Word in Philosophy Classes

Ellen Miller on the word which can generate so much instant hostility and misunderstanding.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]

Do Computers Have Syntax?

Michael Philips on the question of whether computers can think.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]

Omissions & Terrorism

Ted Honderich explains why he thinks that we in the West are partly to blame for the terrorist attacks on September 11.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]

Reincarnation? Disembodied survival? Resurection? Steve Stewart-Williams ponders the possible ways in which he could survive his own death, and decides that he doesn’t have a ghost of a chance.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]

Is Homosexuality ‘Bad Faith’?

Terri Murray says that Jean-Paul Sartre was simply wrong about gay people and self-deception.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]

The Poet’s Metaphysical Role

Rilke thought that the point of poetry was to immortalize that which is transitory. Peter Rickman explains.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]

Philosophy & Humour

Is there a possible world in which the great philosophers became successful standup comedians instead? No, there isn’t, says Trevor Curnow – and he shows us why…
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]

The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

Les Reid on sex, freedom and literature.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003]

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