Tag: "metaphysics"

Somewhere in Leo

John Lanigan fantasises at the cutting edge of philosophical cosmology.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Fiction]

A Brilliant Masterpiece

To be or not to be brilliant? Miriam Abbott on the ontological argument for God’s existence.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006: Articles]

Peter Strawson (1919-2006): A Sort of Obituary

John Heawood gives us an overview of Peter Strawson’s subtle philosophy, and explains why his insights about predicates and persons still matter.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: Articles]

So how do you apply philosophical principles to think about art? An example can be derived from an unlikely source. Reneh Karamians uses Heidegger’s philosophy as an illustration of how to understand aesthetic experience.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: The Arts]

Kant on Space

Pinhas Ben-Zvi thinks Kant was inconsistent in his revolutionary ideas about the nature of space and time.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005: Immanuel Kant]

Kant versus Hume on the Necessary Connection

Stuart Greenstreet finds that free will and determinism really do go together.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005: Immanuel Kant]

Bohr & Kant & Zeno

Would it not be nice if there were a simple foundation to quantum physics? Tony Wagstaff believes there is; and that the Greeks had it.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004: Articles]

Descartes’s Method of Doubt by Janet Broughton

Harry Bracken frets about Janet Broughton’s non-historical book on Descartes’ ideas.
[Issue 43: October/November 2003: Books]

Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore is a well-known cognitive scientist, psychologist, lecturer and author. She has just written a textbook on consciousness. Rick Lewis asked her about her journey from parapsychology to the study of consciousness.
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Interview]

Philosophy & Divination

Trevor Curnow compares the reliability of oracles ancient and modern.
[Issue 42: July/August 2003: Philosophy & the Paranormal]

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