Themed Articles

Mutually Assured Destruction

With the conflict between India and Pakistan reaching a point of crisis, the threat of nuclear war is once again on the minds of many. Duncan Richter, Dylan Suzanne and Robert M. Martin discuss the logic behind the Cold War and the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002]

Armistice Day Reflections

Bob Sharpe asks what it is to die for one’s country.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002]

Return to Iron Mountain

David Limond takes a critical look at arguments in support of war.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002]

Crossing Cultures in Moral Psychology

David Wong on two ancient Chinese philosophers with very different approaches to moral reasoning.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002]

Mind & Morals

An introduction to our special section by this issue’s editor, Charles Echelbarger.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002]

Philosophizing about the Mind

Massimo Pigliucci takes a brief look at the history and current schools of philosophy of mind.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002]

Consciousness Resurrected

Güven Güzeldere asks where we are now with the mind-body problem.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002]

Why Spinoza?

Richard Mason on a thinker who stood at the intersection of many histories and traditions.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002]

The Meaning of Life

Daniel Hill argues that without God, life would be meaningless.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002]

Pluralism: The Many Maps Model

Mary Midgley says that branches of knowledge are like maps – each answers a different set of questions so they can’t necessarily all be ‘reduced’ to physics.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002]

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