Issue 30 2nd quarter 2005

Contents

Reporter

6 News Hound
News, plus straw poll and mediawatch.

9 Word of Mouse
Fuel your fears the web way?

11 Going Dutch
Why we envy the Netherlands.

13 Festive Fun
People paying to hear philosophers.

15 Out and About
Tim Le Bon says goodbye.

Thoughts

17 Homeland
Alastair Hannay pens the TPM Essay.

22 Sci-Phi
Einstein a go-go.

26 Hobbes' USA
America's debt to Hobbes and Locke.

28 Provocations
Is intelligent design theory science?

29 Moral Malaise?
Paul Davis casts doubt on decline

35 Fly the Flag
Do liberalism and nationalism go together?

Forum - The Intractable

40 Intractable?
Introducing our forum's theme.

41 Saving Morality
We send in five leading thinkers.

50 Mind and Will
Two more intractables explained.

52 Daniel Dennett
An interview with a man offering answers.

57 Solve These
Five personal choices of mind-benders.

62 Eastern Eye
Ray Billington shifts our perspective.

66 A TV Tutorial
Mark Rowland's films to make you think.

Discussion

70 My Philosophy
Jenny Colgan.

73 In Our Time
Sartrean radio.

The Lowdown

79 The Directory
Listings of UK and US philosophy organisations.

85 Conceptual Carvery
On sense and reference.

80 Snapshot
The lowdown on A J Ayer.

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

Review

86 New books by Stanley Cavell, Michael Lynch and others.

91 Derrida DVD
Deconstructed.

Last Words

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

94 Letters
Having your say.

96 The Skeptic
Giving succour to snake oil merchants.