Tag: "metaphysics"

The Truman Show

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]

Richard Rorty

by Gideon Calder
[Issue 29: October/November 2000: The Library of Living Philosophers]

Restaurant Metaphysics

Mark Leech on causality and coffee.
[Issue 27: June/July 2000: Humour]

Killing Time

Cliff Stagoll on the strange case of John McTaggart, who didn’t believe in time.
[Issue 20: Spring 1998: Articles]

What’s Out There?

Edward Ingram visits Roboworld.
[Issue 18: Summer 1997: Articles]

Thanks for the Memories

Trevor Emmott explains why ‘acts of will’ may exist after all.
[Issue 17: Spring 1997: Articles]

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