Tag: "epistemology"

What is Materialism?

Michael Philips on the shaky foundations of the most popular philosophical theory of modern times.
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Philosophy & the Paranormal]

The Paranormal, Urban Legends and Critical Thinking

Tim Madigan takes time out to tell some high school students a no-ghost story.
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Philosophy & the Paranormal]

Kripke, Duchamp & the Standard Metre

Stuart Greenstreet isn’t quite sure how long a metre is. Are you?
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Articles]

Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
[Issue 41: May/June 2003: Dear Socrates]

Pluralism: The Many Maps Model

Mary Midgley says that branches of knowledge are like maps – each answers a different set of questions so they can’t necessarily all be ‘reduced’ to physics.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Heresy]

Heretics!

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Editorial]

Fashion Emergency!

Feminist theory has recently faced accusations of trendiness, but Marianne Janack and Michelle LaRocque leap to its defence.
[Issue 33: September/October 2001: Feminisms]

Kant and the Thing in Itself

Ralph Blumenau on why things may not be what they seem to be.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Articles]

You Won’t Know the Difference So You Can’t Make the Choice

says Robin Beck
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Articles]

Jürgen Habermas

by Michael Graubart
[Issue 26: April/May 2000: The Library of Living Philosophers]

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