Issue 35 3rd quarter 2006

Contents

Reporter

4 News Hound
News, plus straw poll and mediawatch.

12 Darwin Wars
Dennett v Ruse - in a sort of public spat.

15 Omnivore
Scott McLemee on Benjamin Franklin.

16 Let's Do Berlin!
The philosopher's guide to the German city.

19 Word of Mouse
Luciano Floridi on words and images.

Thoughts

20 Success
Robert Soloman asks what it means.

27 Sci-Phi
Can starlings grasp basic grammar?

29 Censorship
When words stop us from acting.

33 Provocations
Is policing the web a good thing?

35 Dress Formal
How to love formal philosophy.

Forum - Happiness

40 Think Positive
Andy Higgins looks at the growth of positive psychology.

44 Happy Warriors
Richard Schorch learns from military suicides in Iraq.

48 Buddhist Mill
Wendy Donner sees a surprising East-West link.

53 Crayon Bliss
Mark Kingwell takes lessons from Homer J Simpson.

58 Hands Off
Neera Badhwar asks if happiness is the business of politicians.

62 Good Choices
Dan Haybron wonders if we know what's good for us.

Discussion

66 My Philosophy
David Edmonds and John Eidinow on brainy brawls.

70 Open Debate
Readers take on Peter Fosl's defence of blasphemy.

The Lowdown

79 The Directory
Listings of UK and US philosophy organisations.

82 Conceptual Carvery
Objective explanations of the subjective.

80 Snapshot
The lowdown on Simone Weil.

83 Theory of Knowledge
The last in the series sees off the radical sceptic.

Review

85 New books: Shelby, Dennett, O'Hear, Appiah, and film as philosophy.

Last Words

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

94 Letters
Defenders of Persig rally around.

96 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman arranges her intellectual autobiography.