Issue 23
3rd quarter 2003
Contents
Reporter
6
News Hound
The face of Plato; Times tables; and Open Court success.
11
After Iraq
How philosophers reacted to the war.
13
Word of Mouse
The ethics of voluntary humiliation.
15
Bacc to Basics
Will the UK make theory of knowledge compulsory in schools.
18
Out and About
Tim Le Bon on 90 years of the Philosophical Society of Britain.
Thoughts
19
Plato's Pleasures
Jeff Mason on what the great Greek can teach us about
love and desire.
21
Sci-Phi
Mathew Iredale's regular look at science and philosophy.
22
Science and Ethics
Robert Halliday and Heidi Ravven look to biology for some
moral education.
25
Provocations
Michael LaBossiere wonders whether the idea that minds are
distinct from brains can ever be tested.
Forum - The Human/Animal
Divide
28
Introduction
Why animals raise perennial problems.
29
Kenan Malik
Jeremy Stangroom interviews the author of Men, Beast and
Zombie
32
Shaggy dog stories
Raimond Gaita on fiction, humans and animals.
35
A different difference
Simon Glendinning remembers Sophy Dog.
38
Survey
Our readers' attitudes to animals revealed.
40
Painism
Richard
Ryder explains his new moral theory.
43
The nose job
Stephen
Clark on the moral dangers of taxonomy.
Discussion
46
Open Debate - A defence of libertarianism
Tibor Machan takes on critics of his defence of libertarianism.
50
What is a lie?
David Cowan deconstructs Derrida.
The Lowdown
51
The Directory
Listings of UK and US philosophy organisations.
55
Conceptual Carvery
Philosophy's vital distinctions.
52
Snapshots
The lowdown on Camus and Chomsky.
54
Explaining Ethics
Simon Eassom's introduction to ethics looks at caring.
Review
57-61
We take a look at new publications.
Last Words
62
Bertrand's Break
Cartoons, quizes and the crossword.
64
Letters
In which the editor's failings are mercilessly dissected.
66
The Skeptic
Just put your spirits together and blow.
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