Issue 29 1st quarter 2005

Contents

Reporter

6 News Hound
News, plus straw poll and mediawatch.

9 Word of Mouse
Can the Internet determine elections?

11 Bad Boys
Philosophers behaving badly.

14 Out and About
Must we talk about Harry Potter?

16 Teach Thyself
The changing face of introductions.

Thoughts

17 Choosing Belief
Chris Norris pens the TPM Essay.

24 Sci-Phi
Meet our little relatives.

26 Jacques Derrida
Tributes from Catherine Audard, Simon Glendinning, Christina Howells and Alan Montefiore.

35 Provocations
Is downloading skills unethical?

Forum - The Meaning of Love

38 The Symposium
A Greek tradition comes to Soho, London.

45 What a Union!
Genevieve Lloyd on love in Descartes and Spinoza.

49 Being in Sync
Nancy Sherman on the triumph of love.

52 Unfit to Wed
Jonathan Derbyshire on the love lives of philosophers.

54 Right Loving
Raja Halwani questions love's morality.

58 What is Love?
Peter Goldie on the wrong answer.

63 Real Love
Michael Lacewing on love as a world-maker.

Discussion

67 My Philosophy
Alexander McCall Smith shows his Socratic side.

70 Head to Head
Chris Bertram and Jeremy Stangroom lock horns on blogging.

75 Arthur C. Danto
Chats about the end of art.

The Lowdown

79 The Directory
Listings of UK and US philosophy organisations.

85 Conceptual Carvery
On sense and reference.

80 Snapshot
The lowdown on Max Stirner.

82 Theory of Knowledge
The fourth in a series on epistemology.

Review

87 New books by John Harris, Colin McGinn and others.

Last Words

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

94 Letters
Having your say.

96 The Skeptic
Predicting election winners.