Issue 9 Winter 2000

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
Eugenics row; thinker of the millennium; a course closure; and more.

8 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus guest commentator, Marilyn Mason.

9 MediaWatch
A new look for our review of philosophy as seen by the media.

Features

11 Shifting Belief
Jeremy Stangroom
Analysis of our survey into how philosophy shapes belief.

13 Velvet Philosophers
Julian Baggini
The philosophers and the underground universities behind the Iron Curtain.

Essays

15 Quantum Confusion
Christopher Norris
Should realists be worried about quantum mechanics?

18 The Santa Wager
Dennis Shawn Pruitt
An argument to satisfy the doubting child.

19 Doomsday Soon?
Nick Bostrum
Have we underestimated the chances that the end is nigh?

Discussion

23 Open Debate: The Morality of Drug Use
Paul MacDonald
MacDonald replies to your objections to his article in TPM7.

28 Discourse: Thought and Thinker
Michael Ignatieff and Ben Rogers discuss philosophy and biography.

Conference Briefing

30 The Problem of Evil
Christian Perring
Susan Dwyer
Philosophers and psychiatrists get together to discuss if evil is a case of madness or pure moral badness

Primers

58 Snapshots
Henry Sidgwick
Bart Schultz
Thomas Paine
Robin Harwood

60 Ethics Masterclass
Peter Singer discusses the classic objections to utilitarianism

The Thinking Voter

34

A variety of approaches to exploring the major political ideologies of our time.

Introduction
Joseph Chandler

Roundtable
Ted Honderich, Jan Lester, Tony McWalter, Dennis O'Keefe and Kate Soper

Interview
Stuart Hampshire
Julian Baggini

Debate: Libertarianism
David Conway and Alan Haworth

Extract: An Intelligent Person's Guide To Liberalism
Conrad Russell

The Philosophers' Review

51-56 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

27 The Clinic
Philosophical councelling in action

22 Sci-Phi

62 Q&A

57 Darryl's Diary (Events)
Darryl Staflund

21 Philosophy@The.Internet

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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Issue 8
Includes: Forum - Realism or AntiRealism, featuring John Searle, Richard Rorty, Edward O. Wilson, Roy Bhaskar and Johnathan Ree; Film Violence; Zombies; Head to Head on God; Popularisation; Self and Body; Fringe Philosophy; Degradation; George Berkeley; Michel Foucault; Regulars; plus...
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