Themed Articles

How To Be Much Cleverer Than All Your Friends (so they really hate you)

Part I: Design for a Superbeing. By Mike Alder.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005]

Analogies, Slippery Slopes & the Prohibition of Cannabis

Robert Davies applies some critical thinking to an old debate.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005]

The Liar Lied

Neil Lefebvre and Melissa Schehlein give an intuitive solution to the famous Liar Paradox.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005]

A Logical Vacation

Julia Nefsky on the curiously strong connections between logic and humour.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005]

Symbols Made Simple

A quick and friendly introduction to symbolic logic by Stephen Szanto.
[Issue 51: June/July 2005]

Ibn Khaldun and the Philosophy of History

Imadaldin Al-Jubouri on the medieval Islamic philosopher who pioneered the scientific understanding of history.
[Issue 50: March/April 2005]

An Introduction to Medieval Philosophy

Mark Daniels introduces a whole millenium of ideas.
[Issue 50: March/April 2005]

The Perplexing Nature of the Guide for the Perplexed

Mark Daniels introduces the most famous work of Moses Maimonides and asks – was he a philosopher, a heretic or a mystic?
[Issue 50: March/April 2005]

The Aquinas Inquiry

What would the medieval philosophers who developed the theory of a Just War have thought about the invasion of Iraq? Ian Dungate imagines their response.
[Issue 50: March/April 2005]

Talking About God

In which Mark Goldblatt starts off by discussing Thomas Aquinas and ends up by killing theology.
[Issue 50: March/April 2005]

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