Humanist Perspectives: Archives
Issue Archives
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issue 163
Eco_humanism
- this issue includes:
- Dualism, Nature & Society: Finding Peace with What Is;
- Remembering an Eco-Humanist;
- Photo Essay by Montreal photographer Daniel Seguin;
- Subsidies & Deep-Sea Fish Depletion;
- Belief & Eco-Humanism…
issue 162
Justice & Revenge
- this issue includes:
- Vengeance is Mine;
- Forgiveness: The Weak Get Even & The Great Get Over It;
- Getting Even? The Ethics & Politics of Revenge;
- Let’s Make Us Medicine of Our Great Revenge: Revenge as a Literary Motif;
- From Brooklyn to Iraq: Revenge in the Desert, Resolve in the Ring…
issue 161
Minding the Media
- this issue includes:
- an Interview with Julia Sweeney;
- Exuberating Fantasticisms: Narratives of Destiny in Audition-Based TV Shows;
- Propaganda, Language & the Media;
- Movies in the Shadow of the Church;
- Media & the Shaping of Reality;
- Media Responsibility in a Democracy…
issue 160
the War on Science & Reason
- this issue includes:
- an Interview with Michael Shermer;
- the SSHRC & Intelligent Design;
- Wars on Science? a historical perspective;
- Selective Skepticism, Manufactured Doubt & the Politics of Science;
- When Ignorance Masquerades as Science;
- Science & Self-Deception …
issue 159
How Universities Are Failing Us
- this issue includes:
- What They Teach;
- How They Teach;
- Corporate Sponsorship;
- Postmodernism;
- and SSHRC continues to embarrass Canada …
issue 158
the Psychology of Belief
- this issue includes:
- Respect, Belief and Disbelief;
- Even Scientists Make BIG Mistakes;
- Seeing is Believing is Seeing;
- an Imperfect Road Map to Reality;
- the Losing Battle with Islam …
issue 157
What Humanists Care About
- this issue includes:
- Evolution;
- the Second Humanist Revolution: Eco-Humanism;
- Morality Without Religion;
- Special Report: Research Council endorses Intelligent Design …
issue 156
Africa, the Cradle of Humanity
- this issue includes:
- the End of Racism? (We are All African);
- What can be done to help Africa?;
- Decolonizing the Images (with filmmaker Ousmane Sembene);
- the Concept of Ubuntu …
issue 155
Living with Democracy
- this issue includes:
- One Nation Under Fraud;
- the Alien Princess;
- Living with Theocracy;
- Politicians and Trust …
issue 154
Darwin & the Evangelicals
- this issue includes:
- Evolution & Education;
- Evangelism & Domestic Violence in the Highlands of Paupa New Guinea;
- Faith & Thinking;
- Our Hitler …
issue 153
Medicine & the Informed Patient
- this issue includes:
- The Appeal of Alternative Medicine;
- The Partially Informed Patient;
- Screening and the Prevention of Disease;
- Alfred C Kinsey …
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issue 152
The Trial of Evelyn Martens
- this issue includes:
- The Trial of Evelyn Martens;
- Active and Passive Euthanasia;
- Dying and Supernatural Experience;
- The Famous, or Infamous Slippery Slope …
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issue 151
Science & Conscience
- this issue includes:
- Biotechnology, Ethics and the Future;
- Science and George Bush;
- What is Conscience;
- The Dark Lady of DNA …
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issue 150
Education & Critical Thinking
- this issue includes:
- an interview with Pat Duffy Hutcheon;
- Theory of Knowledge in Schools;
- the Competent Layperson;
- Children & War …
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issue 149
Popular Culture
- this issue includes:
- the Tradition & Techniques of Satire: the Case of Michael Moore, pt 1;
- Clutter;
- Appealing to the Natural;
- Dwarf Tossing …
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issue 148
Environmental Ethics
- this issue includes:
- Ecology & Humanism;
- a model for land conservation;
- Evolutions vs Creationism;
- Civilization in Crisis, pt 3 …
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issue 147
The Imagined World
- this issue includes:
- A Bard’s Curriculum;
- Myth & Fantasy: a Humanist Perspective;
- Hollywood & the End of History;
- Harry Potter and the Humanist …
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issue 146
Ends & Means
- this issue includes:
- Seeds: a dialogue on Gandhi’s account of means & ends;
- Gandhi’s Letters to Hitler, 1939, 1941;
- Iran’s Remarkable National Cinema;
- Tribute to Blodwen & Joe Piercy …