Summer 2002 Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be Michael McKinney Whenever times or circumstances change, people’s concept of truth changes with it. So what is truth?
Spring 2006 John Maynard Keynes: Capitalism’s Savior? William Welch This issue’s Bio Vision looks at one of the most influential economists of all time, John Maynard Keynes.
Winter 2006 Adam Smith: Capitalism’s Founding Father Best known for An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith is credited with establishing the discipline of political economics.
Summer 2004 Wisdom: The Pauses Between the Notes Michael McKinney Winfried Fritz Wisdom seems to be an increasingly rare commodity. Why, and what can we do to develop it?
Spring 2003 Auguste Comte: High Priest of Humanity? Wilf Hey In pioneering the philosophy called positivism, August Comte had a profound effect on the most noted philosophers of the 20th century.
Fall 2002 Bertrand Russell: Philosophy’s Wallpaper Neal Hogberg One of the intellectual giants of the 20th century, Bertrand Russell earned the acclaim of a Nobel Prize and the reprimand of two prison sentences.
Summer 2002 Feeding Us a Line Jerry de Gier Religion has its intellectual critics, but there is much more to be skeptical about in the smorgasbord of other philosophies available today.
Summer 2002 Friedrich Nietzsche: “God Is Dead” Jerry de Gier Looking at his early life, no one could have known the impact Friedrich Nietzsche would have on society. But in his final years he was not at peace.
Winter 2000 David Hume: Stripping Away Hope in the Name of Enlightenment Wilf Hey Peter Moore David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, and leading neoskeptic, was a highly controversial figure in 18th-century Britain.