Issue 8 Autumn 1999

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
How philosophy changes opinions; competition winner; a knighthood; and more.

8 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus guest commentator, Peg Tittle.

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

Features

11 Life On The Fringe
Julian Baggini
The philosophers making their way outside the mainstream.

13 The Radiant City
Rowan Wilson
The story of Antonio Negri, Italian philosopher and prisoner.

Essays

15 Degradation
John Vorhaus
Why degradation is a subject ripe for philosophical analysis.

17 Film Violence
Michael LaBossiere
Plato and Aristotle shed light on a contemporary concern.

Discussion

19 Head to Head Debate: The Theist God
Michael Martin
Peter Williams
A wide-ranging debate on the existence of a personal God.

24 Discourse: Perils of Popularisation
Simon Glendinning and Nigel Warburton on the merits and pitfalls of reaching a wider public.

Conference Briefing

26 The Joint Session
Dispatches from British philosophy's annual get-together

Primers

30 Snapshots
George Berkeley
Jonathan Walmsley
Michel Foucault
Chris Bates

32 Good and God
Roy A. Jackson
The concluding part in the series examining problems in the philosophy of religion.

Realism Under Attack

34

Five interviews with some of the world's leading thinkers on realism.

Introduction
Joseph Chandler

Interviews
Roy Bhaskar
Chris Norris

Jonathan Ree
Jeremy Stangroom

Richard Rorty
Peter Fosl

John Searle
Julian Baggini

Edward O. Wilson
Jeremy Stangroom

The Philosophers' Review

51-56 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

57 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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Issue 7
Includes: Forum - Women in Philosophy, featuring Mary Warnock, Mary Midgley, The Second Sex and more; Philosophical Maps; Philosophical Biography; Rawls and Aesthetics; Monty Python and Positivists; The Morality of Drug Use; The Crisis in Analytical Philosophy; The Problem of Evil; Karl Popper; Regulars; plus...
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