Issue 27 3rd quarter 2004

Contents

Reporter

6 News Hound
Revolting French intellectuals; ethics professor is ex-con; Joel Feinberg obituary; Straw Poll.

11 Tribute to STAMP
TPM remembers Shaun Williams, its longtime cartoonist, who has sadly died.

12 Word of Mouse
Where are all the new philosophy web sites?

13 Plato's Athens
Joseph Chandler takes a trip to modern Athens to walk in the footsteps of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

17 Out and About
Tim Le Bon on hypnotism, psychotherapy and counselling.

18 Who let the gods in?
Julian Baggini talks to Ken Knisely, host of the television programme "No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed".

Thoughts

20 What's it all about?
Simon Blackburn asks what philosophy is.

22 Sci-Phi
How to combine Einstein and common-sense about time.

23 From an existentialist to a Muslim
Muhammad Legenhausen on his intellectual journey through analytic philosophy to Islam.

25 Provocations
If the universe doesn't need an intelligent designer, does it need intelligent beings?

Forum - Thinking in the shadow of death

28 Death becomes it
Mikel Burley on death's central place in philosophy.

30 Numbers up
Julian Baggini on the results of the TPM survey on death.

34 The discomfort of strangeness
Jeff Malpas on the difference of death.

37 Not Me
Robert Soloman on the denial of death.

39 Looking for trouble
Simon Eassom on risking death for sport.

41 When are you dead?
Ken Kipnis defines death.

43 They died with their heads on
Joseph Chandler on how some of the great philosophers met their ends.

Discussion

45 Open Debate
Sex with the teacher - replies and responses.

49 What should judges do?
David Archard asked Ronald Dworkin what judges should do. This was his answer.

The Lowdown

51 The Directory
Listings of UK and US philosophy organisations.

56 Conceptual Carvery
Philosophy's vital distinctions.

52 Snapshots
The lowdown on Merleau-Ponty and George Canguilhem.

54 Theory of Knowledge
Part two of a series on epistemology.

Review

57-61 We take a look at new publications.

Last Words

62 Bertrand's Break
Cartoons, quizes and the crossword.

64 Letters
Derrida; philosophy and academia; and hard science.

66 The Skeptic
Fun and fantasy are not a problem for hard-nosed realists