Issue 20 Autumn 2002

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
Murdoch memorial; Derrida movie; Queen's crisis; etc.

9 MediaWatch
Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media

Features

11 2002 Survey
Julian Baggini
How to tell philosophiles from philosophobes

14 Book Battles
Natasha Gilbert
The ongoing war between one author and a publishing giant

16Bright Young Things
Joseph Chandler
Bringing philosophy to gifted and talented youth

Essays

19 Rethinking Animals
Paola Cavalieri
Does the logic of human rights require us to extend their protrection to animals?

21 Posthumous Harm
Rick O'Neill
How can the dead be harmed if they no longer exist?

23 Structuralism
Jaroslav Peregrin
Making the connection between Quine and Saussure

Discussion

25 Interview: Mary Warnock
Julian Baggini
Is talk of reproductive rights nonsense on stilts?

29 Open Debate: Slavery and Self-Defence
Joachim Jung
Jung replies to readers' objections to his article

Primers

52 Snapshots
Nikos Kazantzakis
Lewis Owens
Bernard Mandeville
Alex Voorhoeve

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

After Postmodernism

34

Postmodernism RIP
TPM Comment

Introduction
Jonathan Webber

Identity and Power
Lois McNay

Defending Derrida
Christopher Norris

Spectacular Violence
Andrew Hussey

The End of History
Keith Jenkins

The Creative Will
Kirsteen Anderson

The Philosophers' Review

56-60 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

51 The Directory
The essential listings

33 Out and About
Tim Le Bon
Philosophy for prisoners

18 Sci-Phi

61 Bibliophile
Books reconciling science and ethics

62 Bertrand's Break
Pondweed; Stamp; quizes; crossword

33philosophy@the.internet

64 Letters

66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman