Issue 10 Spring 2000

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
Withdrawn books; euthanasia; best sellers; and more.

8 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus guest commentator, Martin Cohen.

9 MediaWatch
Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media.

Features

11 Teaching Thinking
Julian Baggini
How critical thinking has found its way into class rooms - but with philosophers left outside.

13 In at the deep end
Jeremy Hayward and Gerald Jones
Is activity centered teaching the way ahead?

Essays

15 Degradation
Jim McManus
A front-line view of the issues of prisons and degradation raised in TPM 8?

17 Je Defends Bergson
John Mullarkey
Why the French thinker does not deserve ridicule.

19 The Emotions
Paul Harkin
Reason's old enemy is being taken seriously again?

Discussion

23 Open Debate: Why it is impossible to be moral
Stephen P. Schwartz
Your responses are invited to this challenging essay .

28 Discourse: Evolutionary Explanations
John Dupre and Dylan Evans lock horns in debate.

Conference Briefing

30 Style in philosophy
Two days of style and substance?

Primers

60 Snapshots
Thomas Aquinas
John Phelan
Karl Marx
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Reason and Religion

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A wide-ranging look at the sometimes uneasy relationship between faith and rationality.

Introduction
Roy Jackson

Interviews
Don Cupitt; Russell Stannard; Alvin Plantinga; & Peter Vardy

Articles
The Irrationality of Belief
Anthony Flew

Islam and philosophy
Sajjad Rizvi

The Philosophers' Review

54-58 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

27 The Clinic
Philosophical councelling in action

22 Sci-Phi

62 Q&A

59 Darryl's Diary (Events)
Darryl Staflund

21 Philosophy@The.Internet

62 Bertrand's Break

64 From Our Own Correspondence

66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman