Back Issues
Issue 50
March/April 2005
EDITORIAL
Let’s Get Medieval
by Rick Lewis
NEWS & REPORTS
The Cathartic Potion of Living Together
Panayiota Vassilopoulou and Jonardon Ganeri report on a convivium in Delhi.
MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
An Introduction to Medieval Philosophy
Mark Daniels introduces a whole millenium of ideas.
Talking About God
In which Mark Goldblatt starts off by discussing Thomas Aquinas and ends up by killing theology.
The Carolingians 
Stephen Stewart on a forgotten golden age of philosophy.
The Aquinas Inquiry
What would the medieval philosophers who developed the theory of a Just War have thought about the invasion of Iraq? Ian Dungate imagines their response.
Ibn Khaldun and the Philosophy of History
Imadaldin Al-Jubouri on the medieval Islamic philosopher who pioneered the scientific understanding of history.
The Perplexing Nature of the Guide for the Perplexed
Mark Daniels introduces the most famous work of Moses Maimonides and asks – was he a philosopher, a heretic or a mystic?
Finding a Philosophy in Leonardo
Chad Trainer on Leonardo da Vinci as a philosopher.
OTHER ARTICLES
Ships on a Collision Course
Roger Caldwell revisits reality (and postmodernism, too!).
Why Abstract Painting Isn’t Music
Patricia Railing on the point of abstract art, and on how it works.
LETTERS
Opinions on Cover Boy Kant, Contradictions, Myths and Meanings, and more...
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers’ questions.
Moral Moments: Calling a Spade a Shovel
by Joel Marks
Science: Wittgenstein Solves (Posthumously) the Species Problem
Our science columnist Massimo Pigliucci on a longstanding problem in biology and how philosophy helps.
BOOKS
The Return of the Design Argument
Taner Edis reviews two books about evolution and design.
Challenging Postmodernism by David Detmer
Barry Seidman enjoys David Detmer’s provocative book about Postmodernism, Humanism and the Left.
FILMS
Spanglish
Thomas Wartenberg ponders the classic dilemma of the Good Mother in a film about ethnicity, renunciation and cookery: Spanglish.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Deiradiotes strikes again with the fourth of his philosophical crosswords. Have a go, if you think you’re hard enough.
SHORT STORY
A Bale of Woe
The name of the medieval logician Jean Buridan (c.1295-1358) is forever linked to a curious problem in decision-making. Peter Cave recounts his own sad but instructive meeting with Buridan’s Ass.