Back Issues
Issue 16
Autumn 1996
EDITORIAL
Is There Anybody Out There?
by Rick Lewis
ARTICLES
Anarchist or Antichrist?: Bakunin on fearing & invoking anarchy
David Limond on a name which once frightened children.
Practical Solipsism, or how to live in a world of your own
Martin Thomasson on philosophy and design.
Orwell and Philosophy
Martin Tyrrell on a champion of common sense.
The World Well-Found
Some say the world is an illusion. Postmodernists claim it is a culturally-constructed 'interpretation'. In a groundbreaking rebuttal of these sceptics, Susan Feldman argues that the world is just too irritating not to be real.
A Place for Relativism
Richard Mason ponders the relativity of truth.
On being a philosopher and a Christian
Bob Harrison is most happy to be both.
Marriage & Christian Morals: How uninformed philosophical speculation corrupts
Thomas D'Andrea defends the Catholic view of the philosophy of marriage.
POETRY
Logos
by Richard Hendin
LETTERS
Opinions on Nonexistent Elephants, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, Science and Prejudice, and more...
NEWS
Kuhn obituary, Routley obituary, Boolos obituary, Peking Conference on Business Ethics, University Research Funding, Venetian Philosopher-King clobbers Bossi
BOOK REVIEWS
Books for Beginners
Jane O'Grady reviews six introductory tomes.
No Hookers in the Sky for Dennett
Les Reid reviews Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett.
Ethics and Evolution
Ralph Blumenau reviews The Ethical Primate by Mary Midgley.
Nature's Imagination
Roger Caldwell on science and truth.
SHORT STORY
Crucifix
by Danny Kodicek