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What Can You Do With Philosophy, Anyway?
Jeremiah Conway says that philosophy is profoundly useless but incredibly worthwhile.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002]
Moral Relativism & Cultural Chauvinism
Members of different cultures with different values and beliefs come into frequent conflict, sometimes violent. Exploiter or entrepreneur? Murderer or martyr? “Great Satan” or “Great – Santa!” Gerald Lang asks if we can still pass judgment.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002]
Philosophy and the Panopticon
Surveillance cameras watch our every move. They reduce crime and maybe save lives. So why the fuss about privacy? Scott O’Reilly discusses the technologies of control.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002]
Cherchez la Femme?
Not in France’s Fortress Philosophy, says Jacqueline Swartz.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002]
The Uses and Abuses of Philosophical Biographies
Tim Madigan on the Lives of the Great Saints (not!).
[Issue 35: March/April 2002]
Can Philosophy Rescue the Art World?
When you cut up a work of art, do you destroy it or create lots of smaller works of art? Michael Philips investigates.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002]
A Womb of Words
Do babies drink in language with their mothers’ milk? Peter Benson surveys the startling semiotics of Julia Kristeva.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002]
Sir Michael Dummett
by Karen Green
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002]
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]
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