Issue 10 Spring 2000

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
Withdrawn books; euthanasia; best sellers; and more.

8 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus guest commentator, Martin Cohen.

9 MediaWatch
Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media.

Features

11 Teaching Thinking
Julian Baggini
How critical thinking has found its way into class rooms - but with philosophers left outside.

13 In at the deep end
Jeremy Hayward and Gerald Jones
Is activity centered teaching the way ahead?

Essays

15 Degradation
Jim McManus
A front-line view of the issues of prisons and degradation raised in TPM 8?

17 Je Defends Bergson
John Mullarkey
Why the French thinker does not deserve ridicule.

19 The Emotions
Paul Harkin
Reason's old enemy is being taken seriously again?

Discussion

23 Open Debate: Why it is impossible to be moral
Stephen P. Schwartz
Your responses are invited to this challenging essay .

28 Discourse: Evolutionary Explanations
John Dupre and Dylan Evans lock horns in debate.

Conference Briefing

30 Style in philosophy
Two days of style and substance?

Primers

60 Snapshots
Thomas Aquinas
John Phelan
Karl Marx
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Reason and Religion

34

A wide-ranging look at the sometimes uneasy relationship between faith and rationality.

Introduction
Roy Jackson

Interviews
Don Cupitt; Russell Stannard; Alvin Plantinga; & Peter Vardy

Articles
The Irrationality of Belief
Anthony Flew

Islam and philosophy
Sajjad Rizvi

The Philosophers' Review

54-58 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

27 The Clinic
Philosophical councelling in action

22 Sci-Phi

62 Q&A

59 Darryl's Diary (Events)
Darryl Staflund

21 Philosophy@The.Internet

62 Bertrand's Break

64 From Our Own Correspondence

66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman

Previous Issues

Issue 1
Includes: Forum - In Defence of Marx, including G. A. Cohen; Open Debate - Sexism; Dworkin, Nagel, Nozick et al on euthanasia; Cloning and Immortality; Descartes, Hume and Human Nature; Relativism and the Philosophy of R.S.; Snapshots - Churchland & Kierkegaard; "The Will To Believe", William James; Underrated, Overlooked: Josiah Royce; Teaching Philosophy with Games; Q&A; other regulars.
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Issue 2
Includes: Forum - Consciousness Explained?, including Ned Block, Timothy Sprigge and Naomi Eilan; Conference Briefing - Plato and Aristotle on Human Happiness; Cafe Philosophique; The Skeptic's Champion; Casuistry; Philosophy Football; Snapshots - Kuhn and Mill; Chance or Design?; Open Debate - The Moral Imperative To Rebel Against God; Extract - Gottlieb's Socrates; all the regulars.
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Issue 3
Includes: Forum - Philosophy and Counselling, including Lou Marinoff; Environmental Ethics; Time-Travel; Human Cloning; Quine on Video; Philosophers' Paris; Logic; Open Debate Concluded; Psychoanalysis and Sex; The Cosmological Argument; Regulars; plus...
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Issue 4
Includes: Special Forum: The Challenges of Science, featuring Alan Sokal, Ted Honderich, Peter Singer and Nancy Cartwright; Course of Cult?; Mature Students; Diana The Republican; Modular Madness; Ethics and Veganism; Joint Session Conference Briefing; Sartre's Existential Humanism; Nietzsche; Introduction to Logic; Regulars; plus...
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Issue 5
Includes: Forum - The World Congress of Philosophy, featuring Martha Nussbaum, Jaegwon Kim, Sydney Shoemaker, Richard Swinburne, Michael Ayers and others; The Nazi Legacy; Ghosts; Injustice; Millennium Dome; Sartre's Existential Humanism, pt. II; Religious Experience; Regulars; plus...
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Issue 6
Includes: Forum - Freewill and Determinism, featuring Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Timothy Sprigge, Ted Honderich and others; The Future of Reference; Much Ado About Polling; Philosophy and Sport; Post-structuralism; God and Language; Neurotic Realism; Regulars; plus...
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Issue 7
Includes: Forum - Women in Philosophy, featuring Mary Warnock, Mary Midgley, The Second Sex and more; Philosophical Maps; Philosophical Biography; Rawls and Aesthetics; Monty Python and Positivists; The Morality of Drug Use; The Crisis in Analytical Philosophy; The Problem of Evil; Karl Popper; Regulars; plus...
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Issue 8
Includes: Forum - Realism or AntiRealism, featuring John Searle, Richard Rorty, Edward O. Wilson, Roy Bhaskar and Johnathan Ree; Film Violence; Zombies; Head to Head on God; Popularisation; Self and Body; Fringe Philosophy; Degradation; George Berkeley; Michel Foucault; Regulars; plus...
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Issue 9
Includes: Forum - Political philosophy, featuring Stuart Hampshire, Conrad Russell, roundtable, libertarianism debate; quantum confusion; philosophical biography; Pascal and Santa; Peter Singer; behind the iron curtain; the morality of drug use; Karl Marx; Thomas Paine; regulars; plus...
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