Back Issues
Issue 59
January/February 2007
EDITORIAL
Joined-up Thinking
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
SCIENCE CONNECTIONS
No Consolation For Kalashnikov
John Forge considers the moral dilemma of the weapons designer.
The Structure of Musical Revolutions 
Edward Slowik investigates Kuhn’s philosophy of science through an analogy.
HELP WANTED: Philosopher required to sort out Reality
Apply to Mike Alder or any school of physics.
Richard Feynman: Accidental Philosopher
Stephen Doty says the scientist was a philosopher, whether he liked it or not.
Philosophy, Science, And Everything In Between
Massimo Pigliucci at the 2006 Philosophy of Science meeting in Vancouver.
Is Philosophy Progressive?
Some say that one of the main differences between science and philosophy is that science makes progress while philosophers go round in circles endlessly discussing the same questions. Toni Vogel Carey isn’t convinced.
The Near Death Experience as Evidence for Life After Death
A dialogue by Stafford Betty.
OTHER ARTICLES
Bewitched
Following on from our Wittgenstein special last issue, Brandon Absher shows how Wittgenstein’s style of therapeutic philosophy can help us be more attentive in our use of language in everyday contexts.
Ten Reasons Why I Love/Hate Peter Singer
Mark Coffey puts forward five reasons to love and five reasons to loathe the man who has been called “the most influential living philosopher”.
Leo Strauss: Neoconservative?
Tibor R. Machan gets to grips with a perplexing thinker.
QUESTION OF THE MONTH
What Is The Meaning Of Life?
The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. Sorry if your answer doesn’t appear: we received enough to fill twelve pages…
LETTERS
Opinions on Courage & Complexity, The Art Of Aesthetics, Existence & Creativity, and more...
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers’ questions.
Moral Moments: Professional Disillusion
by Joel Marks
BOOKS
Mind by Eric Matthews
Grant Bartley finds a lot to think about in Eric Matthews’ ‘brainy’ pondering of mind.
FILMS
Leon
Is Leon a good guy? Mike Parker analyses the character of the eponymous anti-hero through the moral philosophy of Schopenhauer.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our thirteenth web of wisdom words wrought with wicked wit and wonder by Deiradiotes.
FICTION
Somewhere in Leo
John Lanigan fantasises at the cutting edge of philosophical cosmology.