Tag: "philosophers & philosophy"

A Late Disciple of Lucretius

Colin Bennett on the eternally surprising Charles Fort.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002: The Impact of Science]

Rehabilitating the Ad Hominem Argument

Should Bertrand Russell’s ‘skirt chasing’ be taken into account when thinking about his moral theories? Stephen Anderson argues that it might, in this reply to Tim Madigan’s criticism of ad hominem arguments.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: Articles]

Alice in Blunderland

Peter Rickman travels through the looking glass in search of some of philosophy’s pitfalls.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: Fiction]

Jennifer Hornsby

Jennifer Hornsby is a philosopher based at London’s Birkbeck College, whose interests range from feminism to philosophy of mind. Giancarlo Marchetti talked with her recently at a conference in Italy.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002: Interview]

What Can You Do With Philosophy, Anyway?

Jeremiah Conway says that philosophy is profoundly useless but incredibly worthwhile.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002: Articles]

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)

by Anja Steinbauer
[Issue 36: June/July 2002: Obituary]

Robert Nozick (1938-2002)

by Anja Steinbauer
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Obituary]

Simone Weil by Francine du Plessix Gray

When the brilliant, tragic Simone Weil died in 1943, she was only 34, but her ideas still inspire. Martin Andic ponders a new biography by Francine du Plessix Gray.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Books]

R.M. Hare (1919-2002)

by Piers Benn
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Obituary]

Simon Blackburn

After a decade teaching philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Simon Blackburn recently returned to Britain, to a professorship at Cambridge University. Filiz Peach caught up with him in London to ask him about his ideas and his priorities.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Interview]

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