Reviews

Encyclopedia of Ethics

Kenneth Shouler praises Lawrence and Charlotte Becker for producing an encyclopedia of ethics which is truly encyclopedic.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004]

Our philosophical film guru Thomas Wartenberg is charmed by Before Sunset but thinks it fumbles an opportunity to examine one of the genuine philosophical problems of growing older.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004]

Nonbelief and Evil: Two Arguments for the Nonexistence of God by Theodore Drange

Charles Echelbarger explains the atheistic arguments of Theodore Drange.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004]

Philosophical Reasoning by Nicholas Rescher

James Thomas explores a pragmatic but idealistic book about truth by Nicholas Rescher.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004]

Fahrenheit 9/11

Our film columnist Thomas Wartenberg laughs and cheers this year’s most controversial satire, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004]

The Case Against the Democratic State by Gordon Graham & Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order by Ivo Mosley

What’s so hot about democracy? Edward Ingram considers two books which call it into question.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004]

Eroticism by Georges Bataille

Mark Price uncovers an urgent, thrusting book about love, sex, death and spirituality by Georges Bataille.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004]

The Many Passions of the Christ

Our man with the popcorn and the Aramaic phrasebook Thomas Wartenberg explains why so many people have a problem with Mel Gibson’s flay ‘n’ slay epic, and why so many others think it really is the greatest story ever told.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004]

After the Science Wars

Abdelkader Aoudjit reports on which beleaguered positions are still held After the Science Wars.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004]

Welfare and Rational Care by Stephen Darwall

Jean Chambers explains how Stephen Darwall’s ideas about care connect to an ambitious theory of rationality and ethics.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004]

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