Issue 11 Summer 2000

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
Alain de Botton; new think tank; a hundred years of Radical Philosophy..

8 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus guest commentator, Antony Duff.

9 MediaWatch
Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media, including Seinfeld and rude jokes.

Features

11 What's with the pig?
Julian Baggini
Stephen Law, the philosopher who discusses the Platonic form of the bogey.

13 T. S. Eliot
M. A. R. Habib
The great poet's debt to Western philosophy?

Essays

15 Berlin's Big Idea
Henry Hardy
A great insight the late Isaiah Berlin deserves to be remembered for?

17 Making The Mind
Anthony Campbell
Is consciousness as we know it a recent development?

19 A Green Nietzsche?
Daniel Mittler
How environmentalists are claiming Nietzsche as their own.

Discussion

23 Open Debate: Immoral Philosophers?
Michael LaBossiere
Your chance to answer the charge that philosophers are an immoral bunch.

27 Discourse: The Internet
Brian Winston and Gordon Graham debate the meaning of cyberspace.

Conference Briefing

29 Truth and Meaning
From Moscow, Idaho

Primers

32 Snapshots
Descartes
Jonathan Walmsley
Charles Taylor
Deane Baker

Philosophy and Sex

34

From evolution to pornography, a look at a subject left unjustly on the fringes.

Introduction
Margaret Goord

Interviews
Martha Nussbaum; Helena Cronin

Articles
Pornography and free speech
Rae Langton

Fantastic Encounters
Jeff Mason

Censorship
Glen Newey

Genes and Gays
Alessandra Tanesini

The Philosophers' Review

54-58 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

10 Mitch's Diary
Mitch Hodge
Philosophy events from around the world

21 Philosophy@the.internet

22 Sci-Phi

26 The Clinic

62 Bertrand's Break
Pondweed; Stamp; Q&A; crossword

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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Issue 10
Includes: Forum - Religion and Reason with Don Cuppitt, Antony Flew, Alvin Plantinga, Russell Stannard and Peter Vardy; teaching thinking; the emotions; evolutionary explanations; philosophy and style; defending Bergson; Prisons and degradation; regulars; plus...
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