
Volume 116 Issue 2 Summer 2001
Cover Story
- History and the Enterprise of Knowledge
- Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on the battleground of history
Columns
- Humanist Web
- Anybody and their dog can publish on the Web says Dan Bye
- Science Studies
- Mars comes with a full complement of scientific myths says Stuart Clarke
- Parliamentary Column
- MP Evan Harris on ethics in the chamber
- God and the Modern Scientist
- How can we understand anything? asks Pater Landsberg
- Editorial
- Jim Herrick surveys the current issue
- Thinking allowed
- In which Laurie Taylor loses god, battles ideology and discovers humanism
- Thoughts on Animals
- Philosopher Julian Baggini asks who should speak for the animals
Features
- The Christian Culture of Death
- Robert Ashby, chairman of the BHA, looks at how we leave the world
- A Godless Environment
- Ben Rogers on the morality of environmentalism
- Natural Born Philosophers
- Children are natural born philosophers argues Stephen Law
- Norwegian Nous
- Jim Herrick reports from Oslo on Norwegian humanism
- A Human Disaster
- Shirley Dent talks to earthquake expert Andy Thompson.
- The Leaving of Afghanistan
- Kate Clark on the perils of reporting from Afghanistan
- The Democratic Deficit
- Roy Brown calls for a return to democracy in the UK
Culture
- Holy Relics
- What is spiritual? asks Marilyn Mason
- Philosophy beneath the clouds
- Orlando Radice talks to Nigel Warburton


