Issue 2 Spring 1998
Contents
News and Reports
6 News
Tributes to Isaiah Berlin; Supermarket ethics; Carl Hempel
obituary; plus more.
8 MediaWatch
A selection from clippings about philosophy from newspapers
and magazines
Features
10 Le Café Philosophique est Arrivé
Coffee and chat in south London, but is it philosophy?
12 The Skeptic's Champion
An interview with the editor of the on-line Skeptic's
Dictionary and Guide to the New Millenium.
Essays
14 Unlikely Philosophy: Philosophy Football
The first of a new series revealing philosophical ideas in
disguise.
16 Underrated, Overlooked: Casuistry
A much-maligned discipline that deserves a second look? Dr
Peter Holmes considers the evidence.
Open Debate
18 The Moral Imperative To Rebel Against God
Philosophy meets Dostoevsky as Dr Peter Fosl considers how
the existence of evil affects our attitude towards God.
Conference Briefing
25 Plato and Aristotle on Human Happiness
We present highlights from a recent conference, which
provided an exhilarating tour around the thought of two of
two of the fathers of modern western philosophy.
Primers
30 Snapshots
Thomas Kuhn
Frank Pajares
John Stuart Mill
Peter Holmes
32 Chance or Design?
A new series examining the classic problems in the philosophy
of religion kicks off with a look at the teleological argument.
Forum
34 Consciousness Explained?
Six articles looking at philosophical questions surrounding
consciousness, from a wide variety of perspectives. Includes:
Ned Block; Timothy Sprigge and Naomi Eilan.
The Philosophers'
Review
52-60 New Publications Reviewed
Regulars
61 Philosophy@The.Internet
62 Q&A
63 Paradoxes
64 From Our Own Correspondence
66 The Skeptic
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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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