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His new translator tells you what you need to know about the philosopher -- and why you need to know it.
By Ralph Brave
November 13, 2000
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It whirls you around, turns you upside down and stands everything you took for granted on its head.
By Pico Iyer
March 18, 2000
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A sitcom that forbade hugging and learning becomes a tool for teaching Aristotle. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
By James Nestor
March 8, 2000
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Medical scientists predict technologies such as animal-to-human organ transplants and toilets that send info to your doctor.
By Jon Bowen
November 17, 1999
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Ghostly heart attacks, cancers and other assorted ills have plagued me for the last 31 years. Could the cause be my beloved job?
By David Alford
November 12, 1999
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Returning to the philosophy class that I had canceled, I wasn't sure who or what I would find.
By David Alford
October 29, 1999
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After another personal blow-up in philosophy, I took the only out: To shout like Jehovah and declare the end had come.
By David Alford
October 22, 1999
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Confronted by the discoveries of artificial intelligence, some philosophers are questioning the very minds that keep their profession afloat.
By Paige Arthur
November 20, 1998
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Molly Weatherfield reviews 'At Home with
the Marquis de Sade' by Francine du Plessix Gray.
By Molly Weatherfield
November 19, 1998
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The god of the information age is a trickster By R.U. Sirius An interview with 'TechGnosis' author Erik Davis about technology's habit of hoodwinking us.
By R.U. Sirius
October 30, 1998
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When a philosopher creates a video game about Vegas, the payoff is fascinating but elusive.
By Scott McLemee
August 18, 1998
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The mind's I only thinks it's in charge, argues 'The User Illusion.'
By Matthew DeBord
July 8, 1998