Issue 7 Summer 1999

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
Iris Murdoch obituary, rights for primates, a massive web publishing project and more.

8 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus guest commentator Les Burwood.

9 MediaWatch
A review of philosophy as seen by the media.

Features

11 All Mapped Out
Joseph Chandler
A new way of presenting arguments.

14 The Biographers
Julian Baggini
Can we learn anything important from the biographies of the great philosophers?

Essays

16 Rawls of Aesthetics
Per Brask and Mark Fortier
John Rawls' ethical and political principles applied to aesthetics.

18 Unlikely Philosophy: Python and Positivists
Gary Hardcastle
A history of analytic philosophy according to Monty Python.

Discussion

21 Open Debate: The Morality of Drug Use
Paul S. MacDonald
Your responses are invited to this controversial essay for publication in a future issue.

25 Discourse: The Third Way
Four philosophers discuss Blair, New Labour and The Third Way.

Conference Briefing

27 The Crisis in Analytic Philosophy
Is Anglophone philosophy becoming post-analytic?

Primers

30 Snapshots
Karl Popper
Andrew H Talbot
Boethius
Stephen P Stewart

32 The Problem of Evil
Roy A. Jackson
The series examining problems in the philosophy of religion continues.

Women In Philosophy

34

Sixteen pages on women thinkers and themes of gender.

Introduction
Terri Collier

Interviews
Mary Warnock
Mary Midgley on Iris Murdoch

50 Years of The Second Sex
Stella Sandford

A Tradition of Mysogyny
Berverley Clack

Birth, Death and Metaphysics
Christine Battersby

The Philosophers' Review

51-57 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

20 The Clinic
Philosophical councelling in action

58 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

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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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.
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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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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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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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Issue 6
Includes: Forum - Freewill and Determinism, featuring Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Timothy Sprigge, Ted Honderich and others; The Future of Reference; Much Ado About Polling; Philosophy and Sport; Post-structuralism; God and Language; Neurotic Realism; Regulars; plus...
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