Issue 15 Summer 2001

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
The all-time top 50, Lord Sutherland and the death of Wesley Salmon

9 MediaWatch
Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media, no Roger Scruton this month!

Features

11 Alain de Botton
Steve Deery
Cheering yourself up with Nietzsche

13 Kim Young-Oak
John Michael McGuire
The lecturer topping the ratings in Korea

Essays

15 Unbreakable
Salam Hawa
Hegel goes to Hollywood in the Bruce Willis movie

17 Surviving Death
Anthony Campbell
Why philosophers have not always been so dismissive

19 Hume on Ethics
James Baillie
Getting the great Scot right on morality

Discussion

23 Open Debate: Extinction
Michael LaBossiere
The case for letting species die and your chance to bite back

26 Discourse
Joseph Chandler
Debating paternalism and philosophers in public life

Conference Briefing

30 Free Will and Determinism
Ron Wilburn et al
A report, interview and highlight from the INPC conference in Idaho

Primers

52 Snapshots
Spinoza
Margaret Gullan-Whur
Wittgenstein
Rupert Read

54 Explaining Ethics
Simon Eassom
Part three of the series introducing moral philosophy

Langauge and Meaning

34

More than just words

Introduction
Joseph Chandler

Interviews
Simon Blackburn
Michael Dummett
Hilary Putnam

Articles
Interpretation
Robert Stainton

Object Words Matter
Emma Borg

The New Wittgenstein
Thomas Wallgren

The Philosophers' Review

54-58 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

8 The Gourmet
Brian Leiter
Who's in, out, up or down

10 Mitch's Diary & Directory
Mitch Hodge
Now with organisational as well as events listings

21 philosophy@the.internet

22 Out and About
Tim Le Bon
Philosophy beyond academia

29 Sci-Phi

61 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 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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