Back Issues
Issue 55
May/June 2006
EDITORIAL
The Stuff of Life
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
BIOETHICS
Bioethics Now
Jeffrey Spike explains the place of medical ethics within bioethics and in relation to philosophy.
Xenotransplantation: For and Against
by Ololade Olakanmi and Laura Purdy
Lessons (Not) Learned 
Robert Card on the ethics of medical care at the end of life.
Three Guys with Failing Organs vs One Guy with Good Organs
Michael Voytinsky finds another take on a classic utilitarian dilemma.
On Altruistic Living Kidney Donation
Kidney specialist Mahendra Govani recommends a particular variety of evolved ethical behaviour.
OTHER ARTICLES
Birthday Special: John Stuart Mill
Peter Cave of his own free will lists 21 things – and more – that you probably didn’t know about John Stuart Mill.
Leo Strauss: Tributes And Reflections
William Bluhm and Alfred Geier offer non-neo-con views on their old teacher.
The Notebook
Katherine Power explores the advantage of having an extended mind.
INTERVIEWS
Baroness Mary Warnock
Baroness Mary Warnock is one of Britain’s leading moral philosophers and has also chaired several official commissions of enquiry, including the Committee on Human Fertility and Embryology in the 1980s. She’s currently writing a book in response to Lord Joffe’s Bill, ‘Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill’. Rick Lewis interviewed her at the House of Lords.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our ninth cryptic crossword cleverly composed (as is customary) by the convivially cunning Deiradiotes.
LETTERS
Opinions on Autonomous Writing, Deductive Inductive Reasoning, Infinite Ignorance, and more...
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers’ questions.
Moral Moments: Stop Think
by Joel Marks
Science: Is Ethics a Science?
Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci asks.
Food for Thought: Forward to Methusaleh
Tim Madigan hopes to not die before he gets old.
BOOKS
Choosing Children by Jonathan Glover
John Lanigan considers problems Jonathan Glover has with Choosing Children.
After Theory by Terry Eagleton
Abdelkader Aoudjit discusses Terry Eagleton’s take on what comes after postmodernism.
FILMS
Seven Samurai
See a cinematic classic from a post-Hegelian perspective. Danny O’Donnell reviews Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.
SHORT STORY
The Placebo Effect
A short story by Emrys Westacott about drugs, money and bioethics.