Issue 19 Summber 2002

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
Philosophers in government; Gadamer's death; etc.

9 MediaWatch
Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media

Features

11 In the frame
TPM
How philosophers are portrayed in the movies

13 Room for a view
Joseph Chandler
Inside the quirky world of Amsterdam's philospher's hotel

Essays

15 Green Peril
Greg Pence
Are ecowarriers no more than misguided vandals?

17 Atheism vs. Agnosticism
Michael Martin
Should non-believers do more than just suspend belief in God?

20 Nature vs. Nurture
Massimo Pigliucci
How philosophers need to catch up with scientists

Discussion

23 Debate: Who can counsel?
Lou Marinoff
Christian Perring
Can philosophical counselling respond to its critics?

27 Discourse: An age of unreason?
Jonathan Derbyshire
Nigel Warburton and Stephen Law consider society's rationality deficit

Conference Briefing

31 Ancient Philosophy
Jeff Mason
Learning from the Greeks in Arizona

Primers

52 Snapshots
Pythagoras
Scott O'Reilly
Frank Ramsey
Peter Cave

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

Art and Value

34

Where Are Thou?
Joseph Chandler

Interview: Roger Scruton
Jeremy Stangroom

Art and Allusion
Nigel Warburton

Who's The Greatest?
Julian Baggini

On Borders
Michael Proudfoot

Wilde and Free
Julia Wood

The Beautiful Society
Francis Akpata

The Philosophers' Review

56-60 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

28 The Directory
The essential listings

29 Out and About
Tim Le Bon
Conceptual analysis for addicts

22 Sci-Phi

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

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

30 philosophy@the.internet

64 Letters

66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman