Issue 11 Summer 2000

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
Alain de Botton; new think tank; a hundred years of Radical Philosophy..

8 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus guest commentator, Antony Duff.

9 MediaWatch
Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media, including Seinfeld and rude jokes.

Features

11 What's with the pig?
Julian Baggini
Stephen Law, the philosopher who discusses the Platonic form of the bogey.

13 T. S. Eliot
M. A. R. Habib
The great poet's debt to Western philosophy?

Essays

15 Berlin's Big Idea
Henry Hardy
A great insight the late Isaiah Berlin deserves to be remembered for?

17 Making The Mind
Anthony Campbell
Is consciousness as we know it a recent development?

19 A Green Nietzsche?
Daniel Mittler
How environmentalists are claiming Nietzsche as their own.

Discussion

23 Open Debate: Immoral Philosophers?
Michael LaBossiere
Your chance to answer the charge that philosophers are an immoral bunch.

27 Discourse: The Internet
Brian Winston and Gordon Graham debate the meaning of cyberspace.

Conference Briefing

29 Truth and Meaning
From Moscow, Idaho

Primers

32 Snapshots
Descartes
Jonathan Walmsley
Charles Taylor
Deane Baker

Philosophy and Sex

34

From evolution to pornography, a look at a subject left unjustly on the fringes.

Introduction
Margaret Goord

Interviews
Martha Nussbaum; Helena Cronin

Articles
Pornography and free speech
Rae Langton

Fantastic Encounters
Jeff Mason

Censorship
Glen Newey

Genes and Gays
Alessandra Tanesini

The Philosophers' Review

54-58 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

10 Mitch's Diary
Mitch Hodge
Philosophy events from around the world

21 Philosophy@the.internet

22 Sci-Phi

26 The Clinic

62 Bertrand's Break
Pondweed; Stamp; Q&A; crossword

64 From Our Own Correspondence

66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman