General Articles

The Philosophy of John Lennon

What is it like to be a Beatle? Gary Tillery argues that Lennon’s pronouncements, both cynical and idealistic, reveal a sincere and original thinker.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005]

This Philosophical Life

Chris Fotinopoulos on growing up to become a philosopher, on good and bad education and on Socratic dialogue in high schools.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005]

On Probability & Life’s Little Miracles

Phillip Hoffmann on the importance of the astonishingly improbable.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005]

Is Science Neurotic?

Nicholas Maxwell argues that science misrepresents its own core aim and as a result, suffers from self-deception.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005]

The Epistemology of Ignorance

Peter Rickman on the crucial importance of context.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005]

Ships on a Collision Course

Roger Caldwell revisits reality (and postmodernism, too!).
[Issue 50: March/April 2005]

Why Abstract Painting Isn’t Music

Patricia Railing on the point of abstract art, and on how it works.
[Issue 50: March/April 2005]

“Memorable Philosophy Professors I have Known”

From time to time we’ll be publishing reminiscences about philosophers, selected and compiled by Dana Cook.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005]

Philosophy, Life and Philosophies of Life

Trudy Govier wonders whether the lives of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft tell us anything useful about their ideas.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005]

Justice and Biology, Revisited

Is there a link between biology and ethical behaviour? Alexander E. Hooke takes a look at phrenology and other theories from down the ages. This article is dedicated to Bill Connolly.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005]

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