Issue 6 Spring 1999
Contents
News and Reports
6 News
Chisholm and Goodman obituaries; O'Neill in
the Lords; and more.
8 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus guest commentator
Tony Bruce.
9 MediaWatch
Starring Roger Scruton.
Features
11 Poker-Faced Truth
John Watkins
At last, the truth about Popper, the
poker and Wittgenstein.
12 Much Ado About Polling
Julian Baggini
How a poll thrust philosophy into the
limelight.
14 The Future of Reference
Jeremy Stangroom
The changing shape of philosophy reference tools.
Essays
16 Sport For Thought
Simon Eassom
Why it is time to take the philosophy
of sport seriously.
18 Unlikely Philosophy: Neurotic Realism
Simon Walter
Lessons in aesthetics from the Saatchi
Gallery in London.
20 Poststructuralism: What's In It For Philosophers?
Christopher Norris
Making sense of Derrida and company.
Conference Briefing
22 Daniel Dennett: A Comprehensive Assessment
Don Ross
Does Dennett's thought add up to a coherent whole?
Open Debate
26 Ethics And The Vegan Way Of Life
Ros Wyeth and Les Burwood.
Your objections and the authors' replies to the article
in Issue Four.
Primers
30 Snapshots
C S Peirce
Jack Ritchie
Immanuel Kant
Peter Herrisone-Kelly
32 Religious Language.
Roy Ahmed-Jackson
The series examining problems in the philosophy of religion
continues.
Free Will and
Determinism
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Sixteen pages on the puzzle that won't go away.
Mapping The Debate
Mathew Iredale
Interviews
Daniel Dennett
Richard Dawkins
Ted Honderich
Spinoza: Freedom In Necessity
Timothy Sprigge
Keeping The Dogs Of Determinism
At Bay
Tom Clark
See also extract in The Philosophers'
Review, p. 51.
The Philosophers'
Review
51-58 We take a look at new publications
Regulars
29 Sci-Phi
59 Q&A
60 Darryl's Diary (Events)
Darryl Staflund
61 Philosophy@The.Internet
62 Paradoxes
63 Bertrand's Break
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...
Issue 5
Includes: Forum - The World Congress
of Philosophy, featuring Martha Nussbaum, Jaegwon Kim,
Sydney Shoemaker, Richard Swinburne, Michael Ayers and others;
The Nazi Legacy; Ghosts; Injustice; Millennium Dome; Sartre's
Existential Humanism, pt. II; Religious Experience; Regulars;
plus...
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