Philosophy & Deep Thought

Magazine articles on philosophy and fundamental questions.

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ifeminists September 9, 2003 Wendy McElroy	The Personal Is Personal What does "the Personal is Political" mean? The theory underlying the motto is that all actions and attitudes, however personal they may seem, have political significance and impact society. This is the stripped-down core of political correctness.
ifeminists July 22, 2003 Jennifer Roback Morse	Does Freedom Mean Getting What I Want? Currently few Americans would accept that freedom means getting what you want when you want it, if stated as a general proposition. Most Americans believe that freedom means something much more modest: the opportunity to make choices and accept the consequences of those choices.
Reason June 2003 Nick Gillespie	Soundbite: Lightening Up Ten years in the making and boasting more than 300 contributors, Oxford University Press' new Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment is one of the most ambitious and important reference works to be published in recent years.
Reason May 2003 Ronald Bailey	Pulling Our Own Strings Philosopher Daniel Dennett on determinism, human "choice machines," and how evolution generates free will
Reason May 2003 Leigh Jenco	Property Wrongs Can property exist without the state? That question is posed in The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice, by Thomas Nagel and Liam Murphy.
Salon.com December 4, 2002 Laura Miller	"The Matrix and Philosophy" by William Irwin, ed. Philosophers tackle the mind-bending questions posed by the science-fiction hit "The Matrix," and come up with some surprisingly deep thoughts.
Wired December 2002 Gregg Easterbrook	The New Convergence After centuries of battle, scientists and theologians are finally forging a grand unified theory. As the era of biotechnology dawns, scientists realize they're stepping into territory best navigated with the aid of philosophers and theologians.
Reason October 2002 Mark Goldblatt	Dangerous Thinkers 20th-century philosophers' love affair with totalitarianism
Salon.com August 6, 2002 Dan Shapiro	Why me? Why not you? Misery makes the world go round, and nobody gets a free pass.
Reason July 2002 Richard A. Epstein	Color Schemes Can affirmative action be reconciled with liberal individualism? A review of The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, by Glenn C. Loury.
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