Issue 34 2nd quarter 2006

Contents

Reporter

4 News Hound
News, plus straw poll and mediawatch.

11 ID Carded
Intelligent Design is not science - official.

14 Omnivore
Scott McLemee on Richard Pryor.

15 Bird Brains
Do penguins prove the existence of God?

18 Word of Mouse
Luciano Floridi on an ITentity crisis.

Thoughts

19 Common Sense
David Papineau calls for less of it.

26 Sci-Phi
What's the meaning of "life".

28 Locke's USA
Why Locke is the nation's philosopher.

32 Provocations
Looking good, feeling good.

33 Gratitude
Why even the godless need it.

Forum - Law, Liberty and Terror

39 Ted Honderich
An interview on punishment, terror and regicide.

45 Torture
What the justifications miss.

49 Lethal Politics
Simon Critchley on the Bush administration.

53 Roundtable
Our panel discusses the political response to terror.

61 Outlaws
Antony Duff on why no one is outside the law.

65 National Unity
Richard Dees on how to get it, and why

69 Bully Boys?
The ethics of asymmetric war

Discussion

73 Roger-Pol Droit
Capturing the mystery of the everyday.

76 My Philosophy
Novelist Salley Vickers.

The Lowdown

79 The Directory
Listings of UK and US philosophy organisations.

82 Conceptual Carvery
Unfeasible clarity on defeasibility.

80 Snapshot
The lowdown on Bertrand Russell.

83 Theory of Knowledge
The ninth in the series inducts us to the ways of reasoning.

Review

85 New books: Schiller, the enlightenment, the religious and more.

Last Words

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

94 Letters
Defenders of Persig rally around.

96 The Skeptic
The issue's column is gluten and lactose free.