Back Issues
Issue 14
Winter 1995/96
EDITORIAL
Traditional Philosophy
by Rick Lewis
ARTICLES
Lottery or Lootery?
Gordon Giles asks whether the national lottery is immoral.
The anachronism of morality
Innes Crellin attacks the cold logic of English moral philosophy.
Blasphemy and the Rushdie Affair
Brendan Larvor has some thoughts on the fifth anniversary of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.
Why alchemists can make gold
Rebecca Bryant on the essence of essentialism.
The Philosophy of Scientific Revolutions
Anastasios Economou describes how Thomas Kuhn changed the way we think about science.
Dead Bored: Debord's Dead!
Andrew Hussey on the death of a turbulent thinker.
Eating People
Jeremy Bojczuk on the ethics of cannibalism.
Morality, responsibility and belief
Grahame Jackson asks whether we are responsible for our beliefs.
The Rambler's Guide to Philosophy
After the highways of Mike Fuller's The Map of Philosophy, here are some byways you might wish you hadn't strayed into...
INTERVIEW
Solitaire et Solidaire: An interview with Catherine Camus
conducted for Philosophy Now by Russell Wilkinson and Chris Mitchell
LETTERS
Opinions on Private meanings, Christian Marriage, God's Mind, and more...
NEWS
Deaths: Murray MacBeath, Gilles Deleuze, Sir Geoffrey Warnock, Emmanuel Levinas, Gillian Rose; Society for Meta-Ethics, Socratic Television
BOOK REVIEWS
Nietzsche and the Feminists
John Mann reviews Nietzsche, Feminism and Political Theory edited by Paul Patton.
Moral Thinking
David McKay reviews Francis Snare's The Nature of Moral Thinking.
Science Considered Harmful
Michael Pace reviews Against Method by Paul Feyerabend.
HUMOUR
Campsite Ethics
James Leech on the dilemmas of being a campsite philosopher.
POETRY
Sonnet
by Richard Hendon