Issue 14: Winter 1995/96

Traditional Philosophy

by Rick Lewis

Brendan Larvor has some thoughts on the fifth anniversary of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.

Andrew Hussey on the death of a turbulent thinker.

Jeremy Bojczuk on the ethics of cannibalism.

Gordon Giles asks whether the national lottery is immoral.

Grahame Jackson asks whether we are responsible for our beliefs.

Innes Crellin attacks the cold logic of English moral philosophy.

Anastasios Economou describes how Thomas Kuhn changed the way we think about science.

After the highways of Mike Fuller’s The Map of Philosophy, here are some byways you might wish you hadn’t strayed into… By Peter Mottley.

Rebecca Bryant on the essence of essentialism.

Conducted for Philosophy Now by Russell Wilkinson and Chris Mitchell.

Private Meanings • Bah! Humbug! • Christian Marriage • God’s Mind

David McKay reviews Francis Snare’s The Nature of Moral Thinking.

John Mann reviews Nietzsche, Feminism and Political Theory, edited by Paul Patton.

Michael Pace reviews Against Method by Paul Feyerabend.

James Leech on the dilemmas of being a campsite philosopher.

by Richard Hendon