Back Issues
Issue 51
June/July 2005
EDITORIAL
Thinking Straight
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
LOGIC
A Logical Vacation
Julia Nefsky on the curiously strong connections between logic and humour.
The Liar Lied 
Neil Lefebvre and Melissa Schehlein give an intuitive solution to the famous Liar Paradox.
Symbols Made Simple
A quick and friendly introduction to symbolic logic by Stephen Szanto.
How To Be Much Cleverer Than All Your Friends (so they really hate you)
Part I: Design for a Superbeing. By Mike Alder.
Analogies, Slippery Slopes & the Prohibition of Cannabis
Robert Davies applies some critical thinking to an old debate.
OTHER ARTICLES
On Probability & Life’s Little Miracles
Phillip Hoffmann on the importance of the astonishingly improbable.
The Epistemology of Ignorance
Peter Rickman on the crucial importance of context.
Is Science Neurotic?
Nicholas Maxwell argues that science misrepresents its own core aim and as a result, suffers from self-deception.
OBITUARIES
Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
by Charlotte Rigby
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Deiradiotes unveils the fifth of his fiendish philosophical crosswords. You may be relieved to know that the answers are available.
LETTERS
Opinions on Mistakes and Table Legs, Burning the Library, Species and Families, and more...
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers’ questions.
Moral Moments: On the Other Hand...
Sometimes the greatest enemy of ethics is ‘ethics’, says Joel Marks.
Food for Thought: The Basis of Morality
Tim Madigan on scientific versus religious explanations of ethical behaviour.
LEARNING & TEACHING
This Philosophical Life
Chris Fotinopoulos on growing up to become a philosopher, on good and bad education and on Socratic dialogue in high schools.
BOOKS
History of Jewish Philosophy ed. Frank & Leaman
Ralph Blumenau considers the long and distinguished history of Jewish Philosophy.
The Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley
Bob Sharpe applauds Mary Midgley’s exposé of some modern myths.
FILMS
I ♥ Huckabees
John Snider ponders time, space and Shania Twain in this review of I ♥ Huckabees.
PROSE & POETRY
The Book of Love
A short story about love by Alistair Fruish.
A Yorkshire Wittgenstein
If Ludwig Wittgenstein had come from Yorkshire, what might his Tractatus have been like? Dr G.E.B. Smith imagines.