Issue 4 Autumn 1998
Contents
News and Reports
6 News
Peter Singer controversy; Lyotard obituary;
World Congress; and more.
8 MediaWatch
Philosophy in the media with Sartre's rat,
O'Hear and Diana, Chris Eubank and more.
Features
10 Course Or Cult?
Jeremy Stangroom
What do you think you'd be getting if
you signed up for a course in philosophy? You may be surprised...
12 Older and Wiser
Timothy Hilgenberg and Mandy Wax
What's in store for prospective mature
students of philosophy?
Essays
14 Unlikely Philosophy: Diana The Republican
Rupert Read
The third in the series suggests that
the late Princess of Wales should be seen as a Nietzschean.
16 Modular Madness
Bob Sharpe
Is the modular theory of mind a confused
piece of pseudo-scientific thinking?
18 Questions on Religion and Philosophy
Sule Elkatip
A personal view of the relationship between faith
and reason.
Open Debate
19 Ethics and the Vegan Way of Life
Les Burwood and Ros Wyeth
Your responses are invited to this challenging
and thoughtful look at animal ethics.
Conference Briefing
23 The Mind/Aristotelian
Society Joint Session
Wittgenstein and Forms
of Life
Special
Session
Wittgenstein Archive
Exhibition
What can evolution
tell us about the human mind?
John
Dupré
Primers
28 Sartre's Existential Humanism
Jeff Mason
A two-part look at the ideas behind Existentialism
and Humanism, Sartre's popular but sketchy lecture.
30 Snapshots
Nietzsche
Christopher Budd
Daniel Dennett
Guy Douglas and Stewart Saunders
32 The Ontological Argument.
Roy Ahmed-Jackson
The third of a series examining problems in the philosophy
of religion.
50 Introduction To Logic.
Francis Moorcroft
The second of a two part series picks up the story at Frege.
Special Forum:
The Challenges of Science
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Four major interviews covering various ways in which
philosophy responds to scientific advances.
Nancy Cartwright
How Scientific Laws Lie
Ted Honderich
Minds and Brains
Peter Singer
Darwin and Ethics
Alan Sokal
Misuses of Science
The Philosophers'
Review
52-60 We take a look at new publications
Regulars
59 Sci-Phi
Matthew Iredale
A new regular common on the hard science that provokes hard
thought.
60 Darryl's Diary (Events)
Darryl Staflund
61 Philosophy@The.Internet
62 Q&A
63 Paradoxes
64 From Our Own Correspondence
66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman
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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.
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.
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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