Issue 12 Autumn 2000

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
A revealing new poll, a Sartre revival and e-philosophy

8 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus guest commentator, Mitch Hodge

9 MediaWatch
Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media

Features

11 Metaphysical Movies
Joseph Chandler
Films for the pensive: Krasny and The Matrix

13 Independent's Daze
Julian Baggini
The hard life of the independent philosopher

Essays

15 Group Rights
Aidan Rankin
How group identities are threatening liberalism

17 Negative Facts
Stewart Candlish
When something which is not becomes something which is

Discussion

23 Open Debate: Why it is impossible to be moral
Steve Schwartz
Schwartz responds to readers' criticisms of his paradoxical argument

29 Discourse: A Little Knowledge...
The dangers, or lack of them, of dabbling in philosophy

Conference Briefing

31 The Joint Session
Why philosophers really go to British philosophy's biggest gathering

Primers

60 Snapshots
Kenneth Craik
Simon Collinson
Gilles Deleuze
Matthew Ray

Identity and the Self

34

What is the self and what is required for its persistence over time?

Introduction
Joseph Chandler

Interviews
Charles Taylor; David Wiggins

Articles
All in the mind
Julian Baggini

Thought Experiments
Joseph Chandler

Getting Things Straight
Kathleen Wilkes

Animalism
Paul Snowdon

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

59 Bibliophile
Lyn May and Steve Deery on building a home philosophy library

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

64 From Our Own Correspondence

66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman

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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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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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