Issue 17 Winter 2002

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
The two million dollar man and David Lewis's death

9 MediaWatch
Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media

Features

11 Wittgenstein's Music
Jonathan Derbyshire
How the Tractatus was set to music

13 Staying Alive
Julian Baggini
The results of an online philosophical experiment

Essays

15 After Postmodernism
José Lopez and Gary Potter
The critical realist alternative

17 Empirical Ethics
Robert Halliday
Basing morality on facts about human flourishing

Discussion

19 Open Debate: Extinction
Michael C LaBossiere
LaBossiere responds to three objections to his essay sent in by TPM readers

23 Discourse: The New Millennium
Jonathan Derbyshire
Anthony O'Hear and A C Grayling debate the role of philosophy

Conference Briefing

31 The Standing Conference
Lyn May
UK academic philosophers hold their annual business meeting

Primers

26 Snapshots
Sartre
Jeremy Stangroom
David Lewis
Michael C LaBossiere

28 Explaining Ethics
Simon Eassom
Part five of the series introducing moral philosophy

After 11 September

34

More than just words

Introduction
Joseph Chandler

Roundtable
David Conway, Jennifer Hornsby, Anthony O'Hear, Jonathan Rée

Letter to the President
Jordan Peterson

Articles
Just War Theory
Nick Fotion

War and Crime
Richard Norman

Terrorism and Politics
Bat-Ami Bar On

Patriotism
William Morgan

A Hegelian View
James McCarney

The Philosophers' Review

54-60 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

10 The Directory
The essential listings

30 Out and About
Tim Le Bon
Philosophy beyond academia

25 Sci-Phi

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

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

53 philosophy@the.internet

64 Letters

66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman

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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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Issue 16
Includes: Forum - Existentialism, including Simone de Beauvoir, aesthetics and postcolonialism; the silicon society; Tim Scanlon interviewed; wickedness; the top ten philosophy classics; the infosphere; science and philosophy; Plato; MacIntyre; the internet; regulars; news; plus...
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