Issue 5 Winter 1999
Contents
News and Reports
6 News
The world's favourite philosopher; the analytic
top 100; and more.
9 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus Roy A. Jackson tackles
the Pope.
10 MediaWatch
Hedgehogs, Hands and Hunting.
Features
12 The Nazi Legacy
Hans-Joachim Niemann
How Germany's fear of euthanasia led
to the resignation of a humane philosopher.
14 Socrates in Practice
Sule Elkatip
Can business people learn from Socratic
Dialogue?
Essays
17 Ghosts and Minds
Michael LaBossiere
We all know what ghosts are, but are
there philosophical reasons for believing that they could
really exist?
19 Injustice
Thomas W. Simon
Simon argues that before we strive for
justice, we must first remove injustice.
Unlikely Philosophy
21 The Millennium Dome
Simon Walter
The true significance of the Dome and its contents.
Primers
28 Sartre's Existential Humanism
Jeff Mason
The second part of a look at the ideas behind Existentialism
and Humanism, Sartre's popular but sketchy lecture.
30 Snapshots
John Locke
Jonathan Walmsely
David Hume
Peter Fosl
32 Religious Experience.
Roy Ahmed-Jackson
The series examining problems in the philosophy of religion
continues.
The World Congress
of Philosophy
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Reporting from the largest gathering of philosophers
in history, with exclusive interviews with some of the top
speakers.
Interviews:
Martha Nussbaum
Cultivating Humanity
Jaegwon Kim & Sydney Shoemaker
Mind-Body Problems
Emmanuel Eze
Democracy in Africa
Richard Swinburne
God and Evil
Arthur Fine
Philosophy of Science Today
Ouyang Kang
Chinese Marxism Today
Michael Ayers
Empiricism
Reports:
All Together Now?
An overview of the event
Living Legends
Six of the biggest names in world philosophy
around one table...
The Philosophers'
Review
56-61 We take a look at new publications
Regulars
23 Paradoxes
24 Q&A
25 Sci-Phi
Matthew Iredale
A new regular common on the hard science that provokes hard
thought.
26 Darryl's Diary (Events)
Darryl Staflund
27 Philosophy@The.Internet
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...
Issue 4
Includes: Special Forum: The Challenges
of Science, featuring Alan Sokal, Ted Honderich, Peter
Singer and Nancy Cartwright; Course of Cult?; Mature Students;
Diana The Republican; Modular Madness; Ethics and Veganism;
Joint Session Conference Briefing; Sartre's Existential Humanism;
Nietzsche; Introduction to Logic; Regulars; plus...
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