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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]
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]
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