Issue 14 Spring 2001

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
The deaths of Quine and Anscombe

9 MediaWatch
Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media, more often than not Roger Scruton!

Features

11 New Media
Stephen Darwall & J David Velleman
A new challenge to traditional academic publishing

13 Reflections on China
Jeff Mason
East meets West on a revealing exchange

Essays

15 Autistic Spinoza
Michael Fitzgerald
Did the great Dutchman suffer from Asperger's Syndrome?

17 Europe
Simon Critchley
A continent of bastards?

19 Ecofeminism
Karen J Warren
How the environment is a feminist issue

Discussion

23 Open Debate: Wickedness
Mary Midgley
Your chance to debate with a leading philosopher

Special Feature

26 Russell's Letters
An exclusive preview of a new volume of Russell's letters

Conference Briefing

30 Ethics, ICT and social exclusion
From Bolton, England

Primers

52 Snapshots
Frege
Peter Herissone-Kelly
Rousseau
Terri Collier

54 Explaining Ethics
Simon Eassom
Part two of the series introducing moral philosophy

Philosophy's Dark Side

34

A look at the side of the subject that is less than the noble pursuit of truth

Introduction
Joseph Chandler

Interview
Ray Monk

Articles
Heidegger and the Nazis
Richard Polt

Human, All Too Human
Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom

Sartre and Camus
Salam Hawa

Political Correctness
Lou Marinoff

Misappropriation
Christopher Budd

The Philosophers' Review

54-58 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

8 The Gourmet
Brian Leiter
Who's in, out, up or down

10 Mitch's Diary & Directory
Mitch Hodge
Now with organisational as well as events listings

21 philosophy@the.internet

22 Out and About
Tim Le Bon
Philosophy beyond academia

29 Sci-Phi

61 Bibliophile
Lyn May and Steve Deery on building a home philosophy library

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

64 From Our Own Correspondence

66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman