Issue 3 Summer 1998

Contents

News and Reports

6 News
Shell sponsorship row, cloning, Popper and the poker, and more.

8 MediaWatch
Philosophy in the media on Jonathan Glover, Wittgenstein, Darwin and others.

Features

10 Philosophy Enters The Video Age
Julian Baggini
How the most enduring resource of late twentieth-century philosophy may not be the written word.

12 The Philosophers’ Paris
Joseph Chandler
A tour in the footprints of giants around the left bank of Paris

Essays

14 Unlikely Philosophy: Heidegger and Hank
The second in the series revealing philosophical ideas in disguise goes from Pop to Plato.

16 Meeting Yourself
Michael LaBossiere
Is it theoretically possible to travel back in time and avoid the paradox of meeting yourself?

18 Harwood's Wager
Robin Harwood
Why the prudent person will worship the Ancient Gods.

Open Debate

20 The Moral Imperative To Rebel Against God
Peter Fosl responds to the comments and objections raised by his essay in the last issue.

Conference Briefing

25-29 Environmental Ethics
Featuring Dale Jamieson, Alan Carter, John O'Neill, David Papineau and Anver de-Shalit

Primers

30 Snapshots
Heidegger
Iain Thomson
Simone de Beauvoir
Ion Georgiou

32 Speculations on the cosmological argument.
Roy Ahmed-Jackson
The second of a series examining problems in the philosophy of religion.

50 Introduction To Logic.
Francis Moorcroft
The first of a two part series examines two millennia of syllogism.

Forum

34 Philosophy, psychiatry and counselling.
Where philosophy and therapy meet. Includes: Lou Marinoff; Christian Perring; Shlomit Schuster and Margaret Goord.

The Philosophers' Review

52-60 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

60 Darryl's Diary (Events)
Darryl Staflund

61 Philosophy@The.Internet

62 Q&A

63 Paradoxes

64 From Our Own Correspondence

66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman