Back Issues
Issue 42
July/August 2003
EDITORIAL
Spooky Stories
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
PHILOSOPHY & THE PARANORMAL
Philosophy & Divination
Trevor Curnow compares the reliability of oracles ancient and modern.
Astral Projection and Out of Body Experiences 
Joe Fearn asks whether the idea of out of body experiences is intelligible.
Why You Can’t Read My Mind
We had no idea that Paul MacDonald intended to write this article.
What is Materialism?
Michael Philips on the shaky foundations of the most popular philosophical theory of modern times.
The Paranormal, Urban Legends and Critical Thinking
Tim Madigan takes time out to tell some high school students a no-ghost story.
OTHER ARTICLES
Hegel and the Trinity
Peter Benson explains why Hegel was obsessed with the number three.
Happiness, Death & the Remainder of Life
Laurence Goldstein conducts a little thought experiment.
Designing Androids
Antoni Diller says that robots must be taught how to learn.
Judging Saddam’s Pictures
Stuart Greenstreet on how to justify your taste in art.
How to Get Real
Is Postmodernism finally on its deathbed? Roger Caldwell examines the evidence and takes a look at its would-be successor: Critical Realism.
OBITUARIES
Bernard Williams (1929-2003)
by A. W. Moore
INTERVIEWS
Susan Blackmore
Susan Blackmore is a well-known cognitive scientist, psychologist, lecturer and author. She has just written a textbook on consciousness. Rick Lewis asked her about her journey from parapsychology to the study of consciousness.
LETTERS
Opinions on Nietzsche’s Madness, Stoics and Gladiators, Sports and Deviance, and more...
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers’ questions.
Moral Moments: An Immortal Pair Passes
by Joel Marks
BOOKS
The Structure of Thinking by Laura Weed
Scott O’Reilly gets quite excited about a new book on the nature of the mind by Laura Weed.
Zeno and the Tortoise by Nicholas Fearn
Adam Carter browses through Nicholas Fearn’s introduction to philosophy for bartenders who wear baseball caps.
FILMS
The Matrix Reloaded
Our movie maestro Thomas Wartenberg plugs himself into The Matrix Reloaded but says that philosophically, it was destined to be dull.
POETRY
Of Men and Mice
by Roger Caldwell
SHORT STORY
Descartes Was Right!
A short story by Katherine Power.