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Think: Philosophy for Everyone

Stephen Law, Editor
 
THINK is a journal created to forge a direct link between contemporary philosophy and the general public. The central aim of the journal is to provide easily accessible and engaging writing by philosophers pre-eminent in their fields to a wide audience, unimpeded by academic jargon and technicality. The journal is sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy in London, which is committed to bringing philosophy of the highest caliber to the widest possible readership. Beginning in 2009, THINK will be available to subscribers in the U.S. and Canada from Cambridge University Press.
 
Unlike other journals, THINK expressly aims to counter the popular impression that philosophy is pointless and wholly detached from everyday life. It also aims to expose some of the bad philosophy that currently passes as accepted wisdom, and offers contemporary philosophers the chance to help nurture and encourage philosophers of the next generation. Several sample articles are freely available here.
 
Information regarding submissions to THINK is available here. Manuscripts and editorial correspondence should be addressed to:
 
Stephen Law
Editor, THINK
Heythrop College
University of London
Kensington Square
London W8 5HQ
United Kingdom
Email: think@royalinstitutephilosophy.org

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Issue 15, Autumn 2007

    Editorial
  1. Paul Kurtz, Morality is Natural
  2. Richard E. Creel, The Wisest Essay I Ever Read
  3. Philip Berry, Euthanasia - The Power of Proximity
  4. Timothy Chambers, My Friend was a Poem: A Philosophical Memoir
  5. Scott Aikin, Evidentialism for Everyone
  6. John Shand, Fear of the Future
  7. Tibor R. Machan, Good God, Bad Deeds?
  8. Stephen Law, Thinking Tools
  9. Benjamin Hale, Gavagai Goulash: Growing Organs for Food
  10. Mark Vernon, Civic Friendship and the Third Term
  11. Mikel Burley, The Danish Cartoons: Considering the Consequences
  12. Margaret A. Boden, Creativity in a Nutshell
  13. Thomas Carey, Aquinas (and Hume) on Miracles: Some Thoughts

Issue 14, Winter 2007

    Editorial
  1. Ted Honderich, Terrorism in Palestine
  2. Nicholas Alchin, Are Morals Relative?
  3. Nicholas Alchin, Is Everything Relative?
  4. Michael Bergmann and Jeffrey E. Brower, The God of Eth and the God of Earth
  5. Dene Bebbington, Fine-Tuning a Circular Argument
  6. Arthur Miller, The 'Slippery-Slope' Argument: Uses and Misuses
  7. Max Kölbel, An Argument for Relativism
  8. Tony Milligan, The Implausible Time Machine
  9. Stuart Mealing, Collective Pebbles: An Insight into Machine Aesthetics
  10. Derrick Farnell, Communicating with Aliens
  11. Colin P. A. Jones, Law and Morality in Evolutionary Competition
  12. Joel Marks, A Planet by any other Name: an Exercise in Astro-Metaphysics
  13. Dene Bebbington, Thinking Tools: The Prosecutor's Fallacy
  14. Book Review, Lust, by Simon Blackburn

Issue 13, Summer 2006

    Editorial
  1. William Hare, Who Open-Mindedness Matters
  2. David Benatar, A Storm in a Turban
  3. Stephen Law, Thinking Tools: The Genetic Fallacy
  4. Piers Benn, Is Atheism a Faith Position?
  5. Peter Cave, John Stuart Mill: An Anniversary
  6. Robert Kirk, Zapping the Zombies
  7. John Haigh, Some Probabalistic Paradoxes
  8. Stephen M. Gardiner, Dilbert and Global Warming
  9. Pater Navé, Evolution Mathematics
  10. Jon Cape, Fantasy Football: The God Squad vs. Humanists United
  11. Kate Distin, Fame! Money! Power!
  12. Ophelia Benson, Perspectivism
  13. David Best, Hunting Metaphysical Snarks

Issue 12, Spring 2006

    Editorial
  1. Mona Abousenna, The Absence of Enlightenment in Arabic Culture
  2. Mourad Wahba, Averroes as a Bridge
  3. P. M. S. Hacker, What is a Philosophical Problem?
  4. Alan Haworth, Democracy
  5. John Haigh, What are Your Chances?
  6. Brenda Watson, Is Atheism a 'Faith' Position?
  7. Rodney Holder, Fine Tuning and the Multiverse
  8. Tibor R. Machan, Is Free Will Real?
  9. Daniel Sokol, The Harms of Violent Imagery
  10. Mary Midgley, Dover Beach Revisited
  11. Peter Cave, Sex without God
  12. Richard C. Jennings, Science, Truth and Ethics
  13. Ian Cutler, Old Dogs New Tricks: A Cynical Legacy
  14. Terence Moore, Locke, Language and Newspeak
  15. Paul Davis, Utilitarianism: A Coffeehouse Conversation
  16. Stephen Law, Thinking Tools: The Bandwagon Fallacy

Issue 11, Autumn 2005

    Editorial
  1. Michael Ruse, Intelligent Design Theory and its Context
  2. Phillip E. Johnson, Intelligent Design in Biology
  3. Michael Behe, Evidence for Intelligent Design from Biochemistry
  4. H. Allen Orr, Darwin v. Intelligent Design (again)
  5. Hugh Mellor, Accepting the Universe
  6. Stephen Law, Thinking Tools: The Lottery Fallacy
  7. Sharon Kaye and Robert Prisco, In the End it's the Tail: Aquinas's Fifth Proof
  8. Antony Flew, My 'Conversion'
  9. Dene Bebbington, The Wrong Way to Infer Design
  10. Richard D. Ryder, The Case Against Hunting and for Democracy
  11. Thomas Riggins, Michael Levin on Gay Sex
  12. David Robjant, Levin on the Abnormality of Homosexuality
  13. Mikel Burley, Biology and Anti-homosexual Disgust

Issue 10, Summer 2005

    Editorial
  1. Michael Levin, Non-Euclidian Sex
  2. Richard Double, Blaming the Victim and Blaming the Culprit
  3. Brad Hooker, The Golden Rule
  4. Brendan Larvor, Should Philosophy Replace Religious Education?
  5. Marilyn Mason, Philosophy - can't live with it, can't live without it...
  6. Derrick Farnell, God and Morality
  7. Julia Tanner, The Marginal Cases Argument
  8. Massimo Polidoro, The Secrets of Rennes-le-Chateau
  9. Tom Wanchick, Michael Martin on Divine Omniscience (1)
  10. Elizabeth Burns, Michael Martin on Divine Omnisciecne (2)
  11. Warwick Fox, Do We Need Nature?
  12. Julian Baggini, Tabloid Shocker
  13. Conor Farrington, The tsunami: Herald of a New World Order?
  14. Stephen Hetherington, Photosinthesis: How Deceptive Images Imperil Knowledge

Issue 9, Spring 2005

    Editorial
  1. Brenda Watson, Should Philosophy Replace Religious Education?
  2. Stephen Law, The God of Eth
  3. Jennifer McErlean, Civil Rights and the Abortion Debate
  4. Camilla Kronqvist, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
  5. Daniel K. Sokol, Reflections on our 'yuk!'
  6. Heather Dyke, The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Time
  7. Peter Cave, Mr. Turkey and Humpty Dumpty
  8. Stepehn Law, Thinking Tools: The Relativist Fallacy
  9. Michael Clark, Paradoxes: Heraclitus' Paradox
  10. Gerald Gaus, Should Philosophers 'Apply' Ethics?
  11. Timothy O'Hagan, 'I should rather be a man of paradoxes...'
  12. Berel Dov Lerner, The Transmigration of Souls: A Multicultural Dialogue
  13. Tibor Machan, Why Liberty is Necessary for Morality
  14. Jeff Mitchell, The Psychology of French Bashing
  15. Ziyad Mirar, Elusive Pursuits: A Brief History of Happiness

Issue 8, Autumn 2004

    Editorial
  1. Richard Norman, Can their be a Just War?
  2. Richard D. Ryder, The Ethics of the Iraq War
  3. Theodore Schick, Modern Physics and Eastern Mystics?
  4. Michael Hauskeller, The Experience Machine
  5. Michael Ruse, Bad Arguments from Darwinism
  6. Douglas Groothuis, Pascal Speaks from the Grave
  7. Stephen Law, Thinking Tools: Seductive Secrets of Shopping Malls
  8. Chris Horner, Introducing Pragmatism
  9. Neil Gascoigne, Practicing Pragmatism: Understanding Science
  10. James Conant, Gretchen Helfrich, Hilary Putnam and Richard Rorty, What is Pragmatism? A Discussion
  11. Hilary Putnam, The Uniqueness of Pragmatism
  12. Michael Clark, Paradoxes: The Paradox of the Gods
  13. Book Review, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion, by John Haldane

Issue 7, Summer 2004

    Editorial
  1. Fred Dretske, Mental Causation
  2. Nigel Warburton, The Gambler's Argument
  3. Roger Crisp, Pleasure is All that Matters
  4. Stephen Law, Thinking Tools
  5. Simon Glendinning, What is Phenomenology?
  6. Peter Cave, A Meaning of Life for GB15 Pounds
  7. Vamsi Krishna Chinthapalli, A Temple of Pharisees
  8. Al Martinich, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes
  9. Stephen Mulhall, Liberals and Communitarians
  10. Mark Rowlands, Keanu's Cartesian Meditations
  11. Terence Moore, Locke's Key to Meaning
  12. Daniel K. Sokol, How to Father a Child When Dead
  13. Jenny Teichman, Darwin, Malthus and Prof. Jones
  14. Anthony Flew, Response to Swift on Private Schools
  15. Jamie Whyte, Statistical Injustice
  16. Brendan Larvar, Tu quoque, Archbishop
  17. Michael Clark, Paradoxes: The Unexpected Exam

Issue 6, Spring 2004

    Editorial
  1. Adam Swift, How Not to Defend Private Schools
  2. Richard Swinburne, Design Defended
  3. Frank Jackson, A Puzzle about Conditionals
  4. Piers Benn, Dead Fetuses and Insulting Displays
  5. Richard Double, Informal Fallacies in James
  6. Marilyn Mason, Moral Panics, Moral Education and Religion
  7. Roy Jackson, An Approach to Reading Beyond Good and Evil
  8. Michael Ruse, Darwinism and Atheism
  9. Michael Clark, Paradoxes: Paradox of Inference
  10. Alan Sidelle, A Misleading Question
  11. Michael Bradie, Sociobiology and the Roots of Normativity
  12. Richard Ryder, Speciesism Revisted
  13. Stephen Law, Thinking Tools: Hypothetical Questions
  14. Book Review, The Myths We Live By, by Mary Midgley
  15. Book Review, Key Texts and Key Theses, by Julian Baggini

Issue 5, Autumn 2003

    Editorial
  1. Colin McGinn, The Matrix
  2. Chris Horner, The injustices of merit
  3. Susan Blackmore, The new science of 'memetics': the case for
  4. Michael Bradie, The new science of 'memetics': the case against
  5. Richard Swinburne, Body and soul
  6. Rowland Stout, Behaviourism
  7. Guy Longworth, Where should we look for the mind?
  8. Stephen Law, Thinking Tools: The gambler's fallacy
  9. Stephen Law, What's wrong with gay sex?
  10. Emrys Westacott, Socrates's question to Euthyphro
  11. Michael Clark, Paradoxes - Bertrand's Box
  12. Alan Montefiore, Kant's categorical imperative
  13. Peter Cave, Dead people
  14. Jenny Teichman, Photography
  15. James Franklin, Leibniz's solution to the problem of evil
  16. Book Review, The Art Question by Nigel Warburton

Issue 4, Summer 2003

    Editorial
  1. Brian Davies, "Why is there anything at all?"
  2. Antony Flew, "God and the big bang"
  3. Paul Helm, "God and the history of time"
  4. Richard Norman, "Swinburne's arguments from design"
  5. Nick Bostrom, "Reasons for doubting design"
  6. Richard Dawkins, "Richard Swinburne's Is there a God?"
  7. Theodore Schick, "Can God explain anything?"
  8. Mark Piper, "The perennial problem of evil"
  9. James Lett, "Irreconcilable differences"
  10. Julian Baggini, "Faith on trial"
  11. Thinking Tools, "How to sound like a guru"
  12. Michael Clark, "Paradoxes - the paradox of democracy"
  13. Sharon Kaye, "Ockham's Razor"
  14. Scott David O'Reilly, Book review - Wittgenstein's Poker

Issue 3, Spring 2003

    Editorial
  1. Terence Penelhum, "The paranormal, miracles and David Hume"
  2. Fiona Steinkamp, "Precognition"
  3. Dean Radin, "Thinking About Telepathy"
  4. Robert L. Park, "The Seven Warning Signs of Voodoo Science"
  5. Peter J. King, "Parapsychology Without The 'Para' (or the Psychology)"
  6. Timothy Sprigge, "What Might Parapsychology Contribute to our View of the World"
  7. Stephen Law, "Thinking Tools: Flying Saucers and Open Minds"
  8. Michael Clark, "Paradoxes: Buridan's Ass"
  9. Michael Lacewing, "A Relative Defence"
  10. David Mills, "Relativism and Cultural Studies"
  11. Piers Benn, "Soham, Widdecombe and the Death Penalty"
  12. Jeremy Stangroom, "Misunderstanding Richard Dawkins"
  13. Oswald Hanfling, "Wittgenstein and the Problem of Consciousness"
  14. Roger Trigg, Book Review - Philosophy Matters

but2Issue 2, Autumn 2002

    Editorial
  1. Alvin Plantinga, "Dawkins and The Alabama Insert"
  2. Robert Kirk, "Beware Cosmic Porridge"
  3. Jonathan Wolff, "Are We Good Enough For Democracy?"
  4. Mary Midgley, "How Real Are We?"
  5. Alan Montefiore, "Deliberate Wrong-Doing"
  6. Helen Steward, "Are They Playing Our Tune?"
  7. Piers Benn, "Miss B and Mrs Pretty"
  8. Anita Avramides, "Other Minds?"
  9. Stephen Law, "Is It All Relative?"
  10. Simon Blackburn, "Relatively Speaking"
  11. John Haigh, "Choosing At Random"
  12. Michael Clark, "Paradoxes: Achilles and the Tortoise"
  13. Stephen Law, "Thinking Tools. Superstition and Slippery Slopes"
  14. Simon Critchley, "Did You Hear The One About The Philosopher..."

Issue 1, Spring 2002

    Editorial
  1. Richard Dawkins, "The Alabama Insert"
  2. Mary Warnock, "Genetic Engineering and what is Natural"
  3. Tony Youens, "Psychic Sophistry"
  4. Edward De Bono, "New Thinking"
  5. Richard Swinburne, "Arguments from Design"
  6. Stephen Law, "Can A Machine Think?"
  7. Susan Haack, "The Untidy Process of Groping for Truth"
  8. Michael Clark, "Paradox: The Ship of Theseus"
  9. Stephen Law, "Thinking Tools. Celebrity Endorsements and a Salesperson's Trick"
  10. John Hyman, "Is Beauty In The Eye Of The Beholder?"
  11. James Rachels, "Ethics and The Bible"
  12. Marilyn Mason, Book Review - How to Think About Weird Things
  13. Roy Jackson, Book Review - Thinking through Philosophy

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