Philosophical ruminations.

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• The Atheist Christmas Challenge Can you prove God doesn't exist?
  Jim Holt Dec. 23, 2002
  
• John Rawls' Unrisky Business Did he rig one of political philosophy's great thought experiments?
  Jim Holt Dec. 3, 2002
  
• The Cyclical Theory of Nightlife With scientific precision, our author predicts the return of nightlife in the first three months of 2005.
  Jim Holt Nov. 15, 2002
  
• Sex and Death The awful existential significance of cellular suicide.
  Jim Holt Oct. 8, 2002
  
• Terrorism and the Philosophers Can the ends ever justify the means?
  Jim Holt April 22, 2002
  
• Uncertainty About the Uncertainty Principle Can't anybody get Heisenberg's big idea right?
  Jim Holt March 6, 2002
  
• Thinking Inside the Boxes "Newcomb's Problem" still flummoxes the great philosophers.
  Jim Holt Feb. 1, 2002