Issue 16 Autumn 2001

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
Academics and religious schools under fire; Oak felled and more

9 MediaWatch
Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media, and after last month's absence, Roger Scruton is back!

Features

11 Top of the Forms
Joseph Chandler
The top ten philosophy classics revealed

13 The History Man
Julian Baggini
An interview with journalist turned historian of philosophy, Anthony Gottlieb

Essays

15 Philosophy Matters
Roger Trigg
Why a scientistic society needs metaphysics

18 The Infosphere
Luciano Floridi
Do we need a new information ethics to bridge the digital divide?

20 In Praise of Putnam
Christopher Norris
What we can learn from the open-minded nature of Putnam's progress

Discussion

23 Open Debate: Wickedness
Mary Midgley
Midgley responds to three objections to her essay sent in by TPM readers

27 Discourse: Russell's Politics
Jonathan Derbyshire
Nicholas Griffin and Alan Ryan debate Russell's controversial political years

29 Interview: Tim Scanlon
Alex Voorhoeve
Scanlon explains why his moral philosophy is "Kant on the cheap"

Conference Briefing

31 Philosophy and Technology
Christian Perring and William Wilcox
Dispatches from an international gathering in Aberdeen

Primers

52 Snapshots
Plato
Roy A Jackson
Alasdair MacIntyre
Matthew Ray

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

Existentialism

34

More than just words

Introduction
Jonathan Webber

Articles
What is existentialism?
David Cooper

Problems of the unconscious
David Snelling

Simone de Beauvoir
Ursula Tidd

Post-colonialism
Azzedine Haddour

Too Serious Sartre?
Jonathan Webber

The Ethics of Aesthetics
Christina Howells

The Philosophers' Review

56-60 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

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

22 Out and About
Tim Le Bon
Philosophy beyond academia

51 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 philosophy@the.internet

65 From Our Own Correspondence

66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman

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