Tag: "metaphysics"

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]

On Simplicity & Complexity

Phillip Hoffmann gives a simple introduction to a complex subject.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002: The Impact of Science]

Mirroring without Metaphysics

Michael Philips on truth and the Correspondence Theory.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: Articles]

The World as it is in Itself Revisited

Michael Philips thinks that intelligent aliens could help us sort out the problem of what we can know, by providing a useful new point of view.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002: Articles]

Life As Simulacrum: Stanislaw Lem’s Sci-Fi

Leszek Koczanowicz on a writer whose novels explore the search for meaning within simulated realities.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002: Science Fiction]

Have you ever wondered whether everyone talks about you behind your back? Whether they are all keeping something from you? John McGuire discusses the Cartesian nightmare that is The Truman Show.
[Issue 32: June/July 2001: Films]

The Many Worlds of David Deutsch

Why do some physicists now believe that there are many parallel universes very like our own? And if there are, how will this help us build faster computers?
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Articles]

Might You Not Have Been You?

J.J.C. Smart on cricket and counterfactuals.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Articles]

Leibniz and the Leaves: Beyond Identity

Angels, humans, the leaves on a tree; is each one unique or just an example of its kind? Peter Pesic explains why Leibniz thought even leaves are individuals.
[Issue 30: December 2000 / January 2001: Articles]

Astrophysics & the Question of Sample Size

Michael Philips on the search for cosmic laws and theories.
[Issue 29: October/November 2000: Articles]

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