Issues
Issue 16: Autumn 1996
EDITORIAL
Is There Anybody Out There?
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: Autumn 1996
ARTICLES
A Place for Relativism, or: How ya gonna keep ’em down on the farm after they’ve seen Paree?
Richard Mason ponders the relativity of truth.
Anarchist or Antichrist?: Bakunin on fearing & invoking anarchy
David Limond on a name which once frightened children.
Marriage & Christian Morals
Thomas D’Andrea defends the Catholic view of the philosophy of marriage.
On being a philosopher and a Christian
Bob Harrison is most happy to be both.
Ontology for Beginners
…have some ‘isms’!
Orwell and Philosophy
Martin Tyrrell on a champion of common sense.
Philosophy on the Internet
Practical Solipsism: or how to live in a world of your own
Martin Thomasson on philosophy and design.
The World Well-Found
Some say the world is an illusion. Postmodernists claim it is a culturally-constructed ‘interpretation’. In a groundbreaking rebuttal of these sceptics, Susan Feldman argues that the world is just too irritating not to be real.
LETTERS
Letters to the Editor
Nonexistent Elephants • Anglo-Saxon Attitudes • Science and Prejudice • In a State • What’s a Chair? • Philosophy Now? • Existentialist Penknives
REVIEWS
Books for Beginners
Jane O’Grady reviews six introductory tomes.
Ethics and Evolution
Ralph Blumenau reviews The Ethical Primate by Mary Midgley.
Nature’s Imagination
Roger Caldwell on science and truth.
No Hookers in the Sky for Dennett
Les Reid reviews Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett.
FICTION
Logos
by Richard Hendin
Crucifix
A short story by Danny Kodicek.