Tag: "history of ideas"

Is God Coming or Going?

David Ramsay Steele surveys American Belief to explain New Atheism’s popularity.
[Issue 78: April/May 2010: The New Atheism]

Saint Socrates

Mark Vernon thinks about the lives of some philosophers who lived their thinking.
[Issue 76: November/December 2009: Articles]

Analytic versus Continental Philosophy

Kile Jones explains the differences between these ways of thinking.
[Issue 74: July/August 2009: Ways of Knowing]

The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory

Massimo Pigliucci recounts the history of the theories of evolution, and asks whether evolutionary biology has ever shifted paradigms.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Charles Darwin]

The Better-Best Fallacy

Toni Vogel Carey argues that perfection is over-rated.
[Issue 70: November/December 2008: Utopia]

The Merits of the Milesians

Chad Trainer seeks out the causes of the birth of Western philosophy.
[Issue 69: September/October 2008: Articles]

The Bible – The Biography by Karen Armstrong

Marcus Wheeler reads a Bible story by Karen Armstrong.
[Issue 69: September/October 2008: Books]

The Philosopher-Mom

Kalynne Hackney Pudner applies logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and the history of philosophy to family life at large.
[Issue 68: July/August 2008: Articles]

The Unthinkability of Philosophical Thoughts

Raymond Tallis thinks the deeply unthinkable, as hard as he can.
[Issue 64: November/December 2007: Tallis in Wonderland]

Philosophy 1000

Jeremy Gorman recites a learning experience from the history of philosophy.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: Poetry]