Back Issues
Issue 49
January/February 2005
EDITORIAL
Kant 200 Years On
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
IMMANUEL KANT
Sapere Aude!
Anja Steinbauer introduces the life and ideas of Immanuel Kant, the merry sage of Königsberg, who died 200 years ago.
Kant versus Hume on the Necessary Connection 
Stuart Greenstreet finds that free will and determinism really do go together.
Kant on Space
Pinhas Ben-Zvi thinks Kant was inconsistent in his revolutionary ideas about the nature of space and time.
OTHER ARTICLES
Hilary Putnam on Realism, Truth & Reason
Putnam is one of today’s leading living philosophers. He has changed his ideas repeatedly on some central philosophical problems including the nature of truth. Christopher Norris tells the story so far.
Justice and Biology, Revisited
Is there a link between biology and ethical behaviour? Alexander E. Hooke takes a look at phrenology and other theories from down the ages. This article is dedicated to Bill Connolly.
Philosophy, Life and Philosophies of Life
Trudy Govier wonders whether the lives of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft tell us anything useful about their ideas.
“Memorable Philosophy Professors I have Known”
From time to time we’ll be publishing reminiscences about philosophers, selected and compiled by Dana Cook.
Can TV Drag Us Out of Our Cave of Ignorance?
Greg Kitsock takes a look at the philosophical television show No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed and its founder Ken Knisely.
OBITUARIES
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
by Lisa Sangoi
LETTERS
Opinions on Virtue in wartime, Philosophy in High Schools, Sex Lives of the Sages, and more...
CROSSWORD
Crossword
The third of Deiradiotes’ much-feared philosophical crosswords. Better luck this time?
INTERVIEWS
Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson is an author, existentialist philosopher and scholar of the occult. He has been writing fact and fiction for nearly fifty years. On the launch of his autobiography, Alan Morrison thought this might be an apt time to speak to the man himself.
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers’ questions.
Moral Moments: The Golden Rule Redux
by Joel Marks
Food for Thought: Dracula Meets Aristotle (But not vice versa)
Tim Madigan reports on an unverifiable encounter.
BOOKS
The President of Good and Evil by Peter Singer
Scott O’Reilly reviews Peter Singer’s review of George W. Bush’s statements on ethics.
Kant, Herder and the Birth of Anthropology by John Zammito
The loser wins, comments Ivan Brady as he ponders John Zammito‘s book on the rivalry between Kant and Herder.
THEATRE
Jumpers by Tom Stoppard
Warren Allen Smith took at trip to Times Square to see a musical whodunnit about philosophical acrobats debating the existence of God. What else could it be but Jumpers by the profound and playful Tom Stoppard.
FILMS
Bad Education
Thomas Wartenberg thinks darkly fraternal thoughts while watching a movie by Pedro Almodovar about sibling rivalry and the appalling results of Bad Education.
FICTION & POETRY
A Driver’s Philosophy
by Chengde Chen
Climate of Conflict
by Handsen Chikowore
Ethics, Logic & Hockey: A Dialogue
What happened when the game’s authorities got serious about cleaning up hockey? Ryan Baker on philosophy in action.