General Articles

What Is Truth?

The following answers to this question each win a signed copy of How To Be An Agnostic by Mark Vernon. Sorry if you’re not here; there were lots of entries.
[Issue 86: September/October 2011]

Colin Wilson As Hydra

Vaughan Rapatahana examines the many heads of the English Existentialist.
[Issue 85: July/August 2011]

That Shine of Heavenly Light

George Ross shows how Goethe’s masterpiece Faust explored the limits of human reason and foretold the catastrophes of the modern world.
[Issue 85: July/August 2011]

Spinning Narratives, Spinning Selves

Pauline O’Flynn tells stories of how our language makes our selves, with contributions from Arendt, Ngugi, Dennett and Merleau-Ponty.
[Issue 85: July/August 2011]

A.J. Ayer (1910-1989)

Alistair MacFarlane considers the populariser of Logical Positivism.
[Issue 85: July/August 2011]

The Success & Failure of Non-Violence

Yoav Tenembaum asks when a policy of non-violence is feasible.
[Issue 85: July/August 2011]

How Believing in an Afterlife Can Ruin Your Life

John Shand gives us a grave warning.
[Issue 84: May/June 2011]

The Facts of Life

Tim Wilkinson uses evolution to sort out his facts from his ‘mere theories’.
[Issue 84: May/June 2011]

The Heideggerian Disruptions of Zippy The Pinhead

Ellen Grabiner ponders the bearable lightness of being a Pinhead.
[Issue 84: May/June 2011]

The Ever-Expanding Kingdom of Bull

Neil Greenspan takes an appalled glance at all the BS in academia and beyond.
[Issue 84: May/June 2011]

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