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News and Reports

• MediaWatch Issue 1
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• News Issue 1
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• News Issue 14
• News Issue 15
• News Issue 16
• News Issue 17
  
• Opinion Issue 5
• Opinion Issue 6
• Opinion Issue 7
• Opinion Issue 8
• Opinion Issue 9
• Opinion Issue 10
• Opinion Issue 11
• Opinion Issue 12
• Philosophical Gourmet 5
• Philosophical Gourmet 6
• Philosophical Gourmet 7
• Philosophical Gourmet 8
• Philosophical Gourmet 9
• Philosophical Gourmet 10
• Philosophical Gourmet 11
• Philosophical Gourmet 12
• Philosophical Gourmet 13
• Philosophical Gourmet 14
• Philosophical Gourmet 15

Features

• Philosophers Playing Games
• Amicus Curiae - Dworkin, Nagel, Nozick, Rawls, Scanlon, Jarvis Thomson
• Le Café Philosophique est arrive
• Robert Todd Carroll (Skeptic's Dictionary) Interviewed
• Philosophy Enters The Video Age
• Philosophers' Paris
• Mature Students
• Course Or Cult?
• The Society For Applied Philosophy
• Reason a Victim of Nazi Legacy
• Socratic Retreat
• Poker-Faced Truth
• Much Ado About Polling
• The Future of Reference
• Mapping Philosophy
• Philosophical Biography
• Life on the Fringe
• Inside the Radiant City
• Poll 1999
• Behind the Iron Curtain
• Teaching Critical Thinking
• Teaching Through Activities
• What's With The Pig?
• T. S. Eliot
• Metaphysical Movies
• Self-publish and be damned
• A Kind of Life
• Happiness
• China Diaries
• New Model Publishing
• Alain de Botton Interviewed
• Kim Young Oak
• Top of the Forms
• Anthony Gottlieb Interviewed
• Wittgenstein's Music
• Staying Alive

Essays

• Relativism and Religious Education
• Descartes and Hume on Human Nature
• Cloning and Immortality
• Harwood's Wager
• Harwood's Wager: A Response
• Time-Travel
• Philosophy Football
• Heidegger's Lost Highway
• Diana The Republican
• Revealed: The True Meaning of the Dome
• Modular Madness
• Questions on Religion and Philosophy
• Nelson Goodman and the Value of Artistic Expression
• Existentialism: An Ethical Dilemma?
• Ghosts and Minds
• Injustice Studies
• Sport For Thought
• Neurotic Realism
• Post-structuralism: what's in it for philosophers?
• Rawls of Aesthetics
• Python and Positivists
• From Dignity to Degradation
• Lights, Camera, Blood
• Santa, Sokal's Hoax and Pascal's Wager
• Quantum Confusion
• The Doomsday Argument
• Bergson Defended
• The Emotions
• Prison and Degradation
• Berlin's Big Idea
• Making The Mind
• A Green Nietzsche?
• Group Rights and Wrongs
• There is nothing like a fact
• Freud Matters
• Self-Censorship
• Autistic Spinoza
• Why we're all bastards
• Eco-feminism
• Unbreakable
• Surviving Death
• Hume on Ethics
• Beyond Science
• Ethics in the Infosphere
• In Praise of Putnam
• After Postmodernism
• Empirical Ethics

Open Debate

• On what sexism is and what it is not (Dr Les Burwood)
• The Moral Imperative To Rebel Against God (Dr Peter Fosl)
• Ethics and the Vegan Way of Life
• Ethics and the Vegan Way of Life: replies and responses
• The Morality of Drug Use
• The Morality of Drug Use: replies and responses
• Why it is not possible to be moral
• Immoral Philosophers (includes replies and responses)?
• Why it is not possible to be moral: replies and responses
• Wickedness
• Wickedness: replies and responses
• Let Species Die
• Let Species Die: replies and responses
  

Conference Briefings

Plato and Aristotle on Human Happiness, Middlesex University, 13 November 1997

• Plato on Human Happiness
• Aristotle on Human Happiness
• Plato on The Forms
• Aristotle's Critique
• Aristotle's Texts

Environmental Ethics - Beyond the Rhetoric, University of London, 5th December 1997

• Is Animal Liberation an Environmental Ethic?
• Round-Table: Issues in Corporate Sponsorship
• Everybody's Talking About The Environment, But What Is It
• Whose Environment? Which Nature?

Mind/Aristotelian Society Joint Session, University of Hertfordshire, 10th-12th July 1998

• The Joint Session
• Wittgenstein and Forms of Life
• What Can Evolution Tell Us About The Human Mind
• Wittgenstein Archive

Daniel Dennett: A Comprehensive Assessment, Memorial University, Nov 6-10 1998

• Dennett's philosophy

The Crisis in Analytic Philosophy, Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy, 12-13 April 1999

• The Crisis in Analytic Philosophy

The Mind/Aristotelian Society Joint Session, University of Nottingham, 9-12 July 1999

• The Joint Session - Introduction
• Why there couldn't be zombies
• Self and Body

The Problem of Evil, Washington DC, May 1999

• Evil: Mad or Bad
• What psychopaths can teach us

Style in Philosophy, University of London, November 1999

• Style in Philosophy

Truth and Meaning, Moscow, Idaho, March 2000

• Go west for Moscow

The Mind/Aristotelian Society Joint Session, University of Sheffield, 7-10 July 2000

• Pass the Joint?

Madness, Science and Society, Florence, Italy, April 200

• Overview
• Justice in the divided self

Ethics, ICT and Social Exclusion, Bolton, England, Feb 2001

• Wired in or out?
• ICT and social justice
• Discourses of the digital divide

Freedom and Determinism, Moscow, Idaho, April 2001

• Moscow Nights
• Beyond the Impasse
• More fun than pigs

Nature and Technology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, July 2001

• A New World Awaits
• Messing Your Mind Up?

The Standing Conference, University of Birmingham, Oct 2001

• Looking Out and In

Primers

• Paul Churchland - A Snapshot
• Kierkegaard - A Snapshot
• J. S. Mill - A Snapshot
• Thomas Kuhn - A Shapshot
• Simone de Beauvoir - A Snapshot
• Martin Heidegger - A Snapshot
• Friedrich Nietzsche - A Snapshot
• Daniel Dennett - A Snapshot
• David Hume - A Snapshot
• John Locke - A Snapshot
• C. S. Peirce - A Snapshot
• Immanuel Kant - A Snapshot
• Karl Popper - A Snapshot
• Boethius - A Snapshot
• George Berkeley - A Snapshot
• Michel Foucault - A Snapshot
• Henry Sidgwick - A Shapshot
• Thomas Paine - A Snapshot
• Thomas Aquinas - A Snapshot
• Karl Marx - A Snapshot
• Rene Descartes - A Snapshot
• Charles Taylor - A Snapshot
• Kenneth Craik - A Snapshot
• Gilles Deleuze - A Snapshot
• Hilary Puttnam - A Snapshot
• Richard Rorty - A Snapshot
• Gottlob Frege - A Snapshot
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - A Snapshot
• Baruch Spinoza - A Snapshot
• Ludwig Wittgenstein - A Snapshot
• Plato - A Snapshot
• Alasdair MacIntyre - A Snapshot
• Jean Paul Sartre - A Snapshot
• David Lewis - A Snapshot
• Chance or Design?
• Speculations on the Cosmological Argument
• God: The Necessary Being
• Sensing the Divine
• Religious Language
• The Problem of Evil
• Does good need God?
• Introduction To Logic Part 1
• Introduction To Logic Part 2
• Sartre's Existential Humanism Part 1
• Sartre's Existential Humanism Part 2
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn): a synopsis
• Peter Singer: In Defence of Consumerist Ethics
• Explaining Ethics Part 1
• Explaining Ethics Part 2
• Explaining Ethics Part 3
• Explaining Ethics Part 4
• Explaining Ethics Part 5
  

Forum

Marxism: Dead or Alive? (Complete Forum)

• Interview with G. A. Cohen - Part 1
• Interview with G. A. Cohen - Part 2
• Interview with G. A. Cohen - Part 3
• Marxism for Beginners
• The German Ideology
• Professor Daly on Marx and Idealism
• Forum Polemic: Martin Jenkin

Consciousness

• Ryle's Concept of Mind
• Could Computers Ever Be Conscious?
• Could Computers Ever Be Conscious: A Response and Rejoinder
• Logic and Consciousness
• Ned Block Interviewed
• Consciousness: A Panpsychist's View
• Philosophy of Mind: The Next Stage

Philosophy, Psychiatry and Counselling

• On The Future Of Philosophical Counselling
• The Three Pillars Of Philosophical Practice
• Everybody's Philosophical Counseling
• Philosopher As Personal Consultant
• On The Rise Of Philosophy Of Psychiatry
• Against Philosophical Counselling

Challenges of Science

• On Mind and Brain: An Interview with Professor Ted Honderich
• On Darwin and Ethics: An Interview with Professor Peter Singer
• On The Abuse of Science: An Interview with Professor Alan Sokal
• How The Laws of Physics Still Lie: An Interview with Professor Nancy Cartwright

The 20th World Congress of Philosophy

• All together now?
• Free to do Evil?
• Interview with Michael Ayers
• Interview with Emmanuel Eze
• Interview with Arthur Fine
• Interview with Ouyang Kang
• Interview with Jaegwon Kim
• Interview with Sydney Shoemaker
• Interview with Martha Nussbaum
• Living Legends
• Bertrand's Break Number 1

Freewill and Determinism

• Mapping The Debate
• Interview with Daniel Dennett
• Interview with Richard Dawkins
• Interview with Ted Honderich
• Spinoza: Freedom in Necessity
• Keeping the Dogs of Determinism at Bay

Women in Philosophy

• Why Women
• Mary Warnock Interviewed
• Is Philosophy Gender Neutral?
• Fifty years of the Second Sex
• Mary Midgley on Iris Murdoch
• A Tradition of Misogyny
• Birth, Death and Metaphysics

Realism vs Anti-realism

• Forum Introduction
• John Searle Interviewed
• Richard Rorty Interviewed
• Edward O. Wilson Interviewed
• Jonathan Ree Interviewed
• Roy Bhaskar Interviewed

The state of ideology

• Forum Introduction
• Roundtable: Conservatism and Socialism
• Stuart Hampshire Interviewed
• Debate: Libertarianism
• Conrad Russell: Extract from "An Intelligent Person's Guide to Liberalism"

Identity and the self

• In search of the self
• Charles Taylor interviewed
• All in the mind?
• Thought Experiments
• The systematic elusiveness of the I
• I, Animal

Bioethics and Society

• Janet Radcliffe Richards interviewed
• John Harris interviewed
• Forum Introduction
• Autonomy
• The status of zygotes
• The gene-for confusion
• J'accuse Peter Singer
• Brain Mapping

Philosophy's Dark Side

• Home Truths
• Ray Monk interviewed
• Heidegger and the Nazis
• Human, all too human
• Butterflies and Wheels
• Friends No More
• The PC tyranny
• Swords from ploughshares

Language and Philosophy

• Introduction
• Simon Blackburn interviewed
• Hilary Putnam interviewed
• Michael Dummett interviewed
• Interpretation
• Rehabilitating objects words
• The new Wittgenstein

Existentialism

• Wake up and smell the coffee
• What is existentialism?
• Problems of the unconscious
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Post-colonialism
• Too serious Sartre?
• The ethics of aesthetics

After September 11

• Introduction
• Where do we go from here?
• Just War Theory
• Crime and War
• Terrorism and politics
• Patriotism
• A Hegelian view

Reviews

• Sophie's World on Cd-Rom, MacMillan Interactive Publishing
• Reading Parfit ed. Jonathan Dancy
• Understanding Eastern Philosophy by Ray Billington
• Socrates on Virtue by Anthony Gottlieb: an extract
• An Introduction To Ethics (D. Townsend)/Aesthetics: The Classic Readings (ed. D. Cooper)
• The Large, The Small and The Human Mind by R. Penrose
• Henry Sidgwick on Cd-Rom, ed. B. Schultz
• Foucault for Beginners by C. Horrocks & Z. Jevtic
• The Great Philosophers [R. Monk & F. Raphael (Series Editors)]
• Making Choices by Frederic Schick
• Mill on Utilitarianism by Roger Crisp
• Vita Brevis by Jostein Gaarder
• Utilitarianism, Hedonism and Desert by Fred Feldman
• The Cambridge Companion To Wittgenstein, ed. Sluga and Stern
• The Cambridge Companion To Kierkegaard, ed. Hannay & Marino
• Psychoanalysis and Sex by Stephen Palmquist: an extract
• The Routledge Encyclopedia Of Philosophy On Cd-Rom, ed. Craig
• The Postmodern God, ed. Ward
• Postcolonial African Philosophy, ed. Eze
• The Great Philosophers, ed. Monk & Raphael
• Philosophy and the Good Life by John Cottingham
• Simone de Beauvoir: a critical reader, ed. Fallaize
• Plato's Republic on Tape, pub. Agora
• Truth and Progress by Richard Rorty
• Liberalism and the Limits of Justice by Michael Sandel
• An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics by Mary Warnock
• Reviews in Brief Issue 5
• The Big Questions (Various)
• Liberalism, Perfectionism and Restraint/Liberalism, Equality and Cultural Oppression
• Beginning Metaphysics by Geirsson and Losonsky
• World Philosophies by Ninian Smart
• Reviews in Brief Issue 6
• 101Philosophy Problems by Martin Cohen/Key Philosophers in Conversation (ed. Andrew Pyle)
• The Cambridge History of 17th Century Philosophy (eds., Garber, D.,& Ayers, M.)
• Heidegger: An Introduction by Richard Polt
• Religion (ed., Derrida, J)
• Philosophy of religion: a contemporary introduction by Keith Yandell
• Homo Sacer by Giorgio Agamben
• Philosophy: Basic Readings/Philosophy: The Basics by Nigel Warburton
• Mind, Language and Society by John Searle
• A. J. Ayer: A Life by Ben Rogers
• Guidebook to Kant by Sebastian Gardner
• Beethoven by Theodor Adorno
• Moral Combat by Heidi Hurd
• Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide by Dworkin, Frey and Bok
• Renegotiating Ethics in Literature by Adamson, Freadman and Parker
• Philosophy and Computing (Floridi)/The Internet: a philosophical introduction (Graham)
• The Macintyre Reader (ed. Kelvin Knight)
• Hobbes: a biography by A. P. Martinich
• The Myth of Liberal Individualism by Colin Bird
• Philosophy for Dummies by Tom Morris
• Dependent Rational Animals by Alasdair MacIntyre
• Hume on Knowledge by Harold Noonan
• Environment and Philosophy by Vernon Pratt
• Critical Thinking in Ethics by Lyn May
• Belief by Gianini Vattimo
• Philosophy Football by Mark Perryman
• Wittgenstein's Thought in Transition by Dale Jacquette
• Fifty Eastern Thinkers by Collinson, Plant and Wilkinson
• Feminism in Philosophy - ed. Fricker and Hornsby
• Spinoza: A Life by Steven Nadler
• The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
• Engaging Reason by Joseph Raz
• Reviews in Brief: Issue 11
• Introduction to Political Philosophy by Geoffrey Thomas
• The Analytic Freud by Michael Levine
• Beyond Evolution by Anthony O'Hear
• Reviews in Brief: Issue 12
• A Memoir by Mary Warnock
• Arguing Well(Shand)/Thinking from A-Z(Warburton)
• Clear and Queer Thinking by Laurence Goldstein
• The New Wittgenstein - ed. Crary and Read
• Reviews in Brief: Issue 13
• Bertrand Russell, Volume 2 by Ray Monk
• Rorty and his critics - ed. Robert Brandom
• Mind's Landscape by Samuel Guttenplan
• Hegel: An Intellectual Biography(Althaus)/Routledge Guidebook to Hegel(McCarney)
• Reviews in Brief Issue 14
• Very Short Introductions by Various
• Natural Goodness(Foot)/Being Good(Blackburn)
• Kant Trouble(Morgan)/Kant and the Reach of Reason(Rescher)
• Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer
• Reviews in Brief: Issue 15
• A Common Humanity by Raymond Gaita
• New Essays on the A Priori by Boghossian and Peacocke (Eds)
• Three Challenges to Ethics by James Sterba
• Reviews in Brief: Issue 16
• Radical Enlightenment by Jonathan Israel
• The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb
• The Meaning of Things by A. C. Grayling
• Zeno and the Tortoise by Nicholas Fearn
• Kant: a biography by Manfred Kuehn
• Robert Nozick by A. R. Lacey
• Plato and the Hero by Angela Hobbs

Regulars

• Underrated, Overlooked: Josiah Royce by Professor Timothy Sprigge
• Underrated, Overlooked: Casuistry by Peter Holmes
• William James: The Right to Believe
• William James: The Will to Believe (Reprint)
• The Liar's Paradox by Francis Moorcroft
• Russell's Paradox by Francis Moorcroft
• The Paradox of Prediction by Francis Moorcroft
• The Sorites Paradox by Francis Moorcroft
• Zeno's Paradox Part 1 by Francis Moorcroft
• Zeno's Paradox Part 2 by Francis Moorcroft
• The Paradox of Self-Deception by Francis Moorcroft
• The Final Paradox by Francis Moorcroft
• The Skeptic No 1
• The Skeptic No 2
• The Skeptic No 3
• The Skeptic No 4
• The Skeptic No 5
• The Skeptic No 6
• The Skeptic No 7
• The Skeptic No 8
• The Skeptic No 9
• The Skeptic No 10
• The Skeptic No 11
• The Skeptic No 12
• The Skeptic No 13
• The Skeptic No 14
• The Skeptic No 15
• The Skeptic No 16
• The Skeptic No 17
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 1
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 2
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 3
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 4
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 5
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 6
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 7
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 8
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 9
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 10
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 11
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 12
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 13
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 14
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 15
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 16
• Philosophy at the Internet Number 17
• Sci-Phi Number 1
• Sci-Phi Number 2
• Sci-Phi Number 3
• Sci-Phi Number 4
• Sci-Phi Number 5
• Sci-Phi Number 6
• Sci-Phi Number 7
• Sci-Phi Number 8
• Sci-Phi Number 9
• Sci-Phi Number 10
• Sci-Phi Number 11
• Sci-Phi Number 12
• Sci-Phi Number 13
• Sci-Phi Number 14
• The Clinic Number 1
• The Clinic Number 2
• The Clinic Number 3
• The Clinic Number 4
• The Clinic Number 5
• The Clinic Number 6
• Out and About 1
• Out and About 2
• Out and About 3
• Out and About 4
• Discourse: the third way
• Discourse: perils of popularisation
• Discourse: thought and thinker
• Discourse: Evolutionary Explanations
• Discourse: The Internet
• Discourse: Is a little knowledge a dangerous thing?
• Discourse: Becoming a philosopher
• Discourse: For your own good?
• Discourse: In defence of Russell
• Discourse: The new millennium
• Bibliophile Number 1
• Bibliophile Number 2
• Bibliophile Number 3
• Bibliophile Number 4
• Bibliophile Number 5
• Bibliophile Number 6
• Head to Head: Is there a personal God?

Miscellaneous

• The Horror Of The Higher Man
• Freudipous

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