Tag: "Darwin & evolution"

Letter from Antony Flew on Darwinism and Theology

Professor Antony Flew, who is famous for his philosophical arguments in favour of atheism, has contributed these tantalising comments to the debate.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004: Philosophy of Religion]

Can An Evolutionist Believe in God?

Steve Stewart-Williams says not.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004: Philosophy of Religion]

The Alleged Fallacies of Evolutionary Theory

In Issue 44, Peter Williams claimed to have found numerous logical fallacies in the writings of Richard Dawkins. His article has provoked this blow-by-blow response from Massimo Pigliucci, Joshua Banta, Christen Bossu, Paula Crouse, Troy Dexter, Kerry Hansknecht and Norris Muth.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004: Science]

Darwin Meets Socrates

Steve Stewart-Williams on the implications of evolutionary theory for ethics.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004: Articles]

Darwin’s Rottweiler & the Public Understanding of Science

Peter Williams claims that Richard Dawkins is a good writer but a poor logician, and attempts to prove it with examples of some formal fallacies.
[Issue 44: January/February 2004: The Issues]

Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty is perhaps the best-known living philosopher in the Pragmatic tradition, and one of the most talked-about thinkers of the present day. He is a philosophy professor at Stanford University. Giancarlo Marchetti chatted with him about his ideas and his hopes.
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Interview]

Forgotten Philosophers: Herbert Spencer

Tim Delaney on the survival of ‘survival of the fittest’.
[Issue 40: March/April 2003: Articles]

Human Nature After Darwin by Janet Radcliffe Richards

Glenn Branch ponders Janet Radcliffe Richards’ book about the current state of Darwin’s revolution.
[Issue 40: March/April 2003: Books]

Carpal Knowledge

Raymond Tallis on the natural philosophy of the caress. It’s gripping stuff!
[Issue 33: September/October 2001: Articles]

Design, Yes. Intelligent, No.

Were we designed by an intelligent creator? In our last issue Todd Moody described Intelligent Design theory as a scientific alternative to Darwinian evolution. Here, Massimo Pigliucci takes a more critical view of ‘ID’.
[Issue 32: June/July 2001: Articles]