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You can browse the contents of these issues of Philosophy Now for articles:
Issue 65 January/February 2008
Issue 64 November/December 2007
Issue 63 September/October 2007
Issue 59 January/February 2007
Issue 58 November/December 2006
Issue 57 September/October 2006
Issue 53 November/December 2005
Issue 52 August/September 2005
Issue 49 January/February 2005
Issue 48 October/November 2004
Issue 47 August/September 2004
Issue 44 January/February 2004
Issue 43 October/November 2003
Below is a selection of articles from earlier issues:
Earth to Russell
Chad Trainer on the limits of Russell’s views on space exploration.
Life Begins at Forty...
by Rick Lewis
The Complete Logician, or Miss Blackmore’s Unspeakable Sin
Mike Alder asks what is wrong with being charmingly illogical.
Monkey Business
by Rick Lewis
Omissions & Terrorism
Ted Honderich explains why he thinks that we in the West are partly to blame for the terrorist attack on September 11.
Skeptics & Terraformers
by Rick Lewis
What’s New in Philosophy of Science?
So what’s going on in philosophy of science at the moment? Bora Dogan describes some of the current highlights.
Mutually Assured Destruction
It’s a mad, MAD world says Robert M. Martin
“That Devil’s Madness”
by Rick Lewis
Liberty, Logic & Abortion
Mark Goldblatt analyses the moral and legal arguments on both sides of America’s most divisive issue.
Mind & Morals
An introduction by Charles Echelbarger.
Body Worlds
Chris Bloor found this unusual show of dead bodies in London to be essential viewing.
The Uses and Abuses of Philosophical Biographies
Tim Madigan on the Lives of the Great Saints (not!).
Heretics!
by Rick Lewis
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.
The Mouse That Roared
Joel Marks on September 11th 2001
Science Fiction
by Tim Madigan
The True Believer Revisited
Tim Madigan on September 11th and a longshoreman who understood the psychology of mass movements.
Feminisms
by Rick Lewis
Wittgenstein’s Significance
Mark Cain on the 50th anniversary of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s death.
Existentialism
An introduction by Anja Steinbauer.
Preference, Satisfaction and the Good
Michael Philips wonders what you really, really want.
Willard V. Quine (1908-2000)
by Paul O’Grady
Philosophy & Food
An introduction by Jeremy Iggers, philosopher and restaurant critic.
Nietzsche 2000
An introduction by H. James Birx.
“I have a philosophical secret!”
The lowest-rated Jerry Springer show ever.
Proper Sentiment and Human Cloning
Stephen Clark on the responsibilities of those who create new kinds of life.
The Library of Living Philosophers: Arthur Danto
by Rick Lewis
The Philosopher as Joker
Peter Rickman on the unsettling similarities between jokes and philosophy.
Philosophy and Humor
An introduction by Tim Madigan.
The Meaning of Life
Richard Taylor says that lives are meaningful only if they are creative.
Meaning and Purpose
J.J.C. Smart investigates the meaning of purpose.
What’s the meaning of all this?
Brenda Almond on the pursuit of wisdom.
The Only Ones
A short story by Alistair Fruish.
Oh Come All Ye Thoughtful...
Anja Steinbauer reporting from the 20th World Congress of Philosophy in Boston.
Off-The-Peg Offspring in the Genetic Supermarket
Colin Gavaghan asks how seriously we should take Gattaca’s dread of genetic screening.
The discarded Lemon: Kant, prostitution and respect for persons
Timothy J. Madigan thinks Kant’s duty-based ethics could approve of prostitution.
What’s New in Philosophy of Religion
Daniel Hill describes how the work of Alvin Plantinga has revolutionised Philosophy of Religion.
Ockham, Hume & Epistemic Wisdom
William Grey launches an all-out attack on the paranormal armed with a couple of razors honed with the whetstone of scepticism.
Much Ado About Consciousness
Philosophy of Mind is a very exciting area in modern philosophy. One of those stirring up the dust is David Chalmers, an Australian philosopher who says that consciousness is a fundamental component of the universe, like space, time and mass. Andrew Chrucky asked the questions.
What’s New in Ancient Philosophy
In the first of our ‘Overview’ series, Mark Daniels describes the latest work on the earliest philosophers.
Humanity
A short story by Danny Kodicek.
Here I Go, Here I Go, Here I Go!
Martin Tyrell on Methodologial Collectivism and the 1994 World Cup.
Burke, Kant and the Sublime
by Gur Hirshberg
Parenthetic Doubt: A Newly Discovered Fragment of an Early Work by Descartes
by Andrew Belsey
The Old Man of the Mountain
The legend of Hassan-ibn-Sabbah