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Editorial

Joined-up Thinking

by Rick Lewis

Other magazines have covers which shout: “Princess Di Was A Buddhist!” or “How To Catch Your Heart-Throb!” In a similar typeface and spirit, ours luridly screams “Science Connections”. Not actually screams, really, as an exclamation mark (a piece of notation known to some mathematicians as a ‘shriek’, incidentally) would have seemed vulgarly sensational. But why science connections? Well, we were originally going to call this issue ‘The Edge of Science’, but we fretted that this might make people think that the theme was the paranormal. This issue, on the contrary, is about an assortment of topics where philosophy might have something useful to say about scientific problems or where science generates philosophical problems. It isn’t mainly about the philosophy of science.

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