Issues
Issue 12: Spring/Summer 1995
EDITORIAL
Confessions of an Editor
by Rick Lewis
ARTICLES
BIG philosophy!
John Mann conducts an opinion survey in cyberspace.
Emotions: A Defence of Irrationality
Carole Haynes-Curtis on stuffed tigers, pink elephants and Mr. Spock.
For Tolerance
Jonathan Gorman thanks God for the ideal of tolerance.
The Scientist and the Savage
A dialogue by Mike Fuller.
Transcendence, Logic and Identity
by Trevor Curnow
Violent Films: Natural Born Killers?
Matthew Kieran wants the censors to make his day.
Wronging the Ignorant and the Dumb
Tony Skillen on the mistreatment of animals and humans.
INTERVIEWS
Gaarder’s World
Philosophy Now interviews Jostein Gaarder, author of the best-selling history of philosophy, Sophie’s World.
LETTERS
Letters to the Editor
More Things in Heaven and Earth? • Logic Chopping? • Eat More Meat! • Cannibals’ Corner • Collective Indignation • Car Mania
REVIEWS
It’s That Man Again
Nietzsche returns! John Lippitt reviews F.A. Lea The Tragic Philosopher: Friedrich Nietzsche (Athlone Press, 1993) and Keith M. May Nietzsche on the Struggle between Knowledge and Wisdom (St. Martin’s Press, 1993).
The Real God: A Response to Anthony Freeman’s God in Us
Gordon Giles reviews Bishop Richard Harries’ reply to the book that got Anthony Freeman sacked from his vicarage.
Undermining the Present?
Bob Fitter reviews Bryan Appleyard’s book Understanding the Present.
FICTION
Humanity
A short story by Danny Kodicek.