Issue 4 Autumn 1998

Contents

News and Reports

6 News
Peter Singer controversy; Lyotard obituary; World Congress; and more.

8 MediaWatch
Philosophy in the media with Sartre's rat, O'Hear and Diana, Chris Eubank and more.

Features

10 Course Or Cult?
Jeremy Stangroom
What do you think you'd be getting if you signed up for a course in philosophy? You may be surprised...

12 Older and Wiser
Timothy Hilgenberg and Mandy Wax
What's in store for prospective mature students of philosophy?

Essays

14 Unlikely Philosophy: Diana The Republican
Rupert Read
The third in the series suggests that the late Princess of Wales should be seen as a Nietzschean.

16 Modular Madness
Bob Sharpe
Is the modular theory of mind a confused piece of pseudo-scientific thinking?

18 Questions on Religion and Philosophy
Sule Elkatip
A personal view of the relationship between faith and reason.

Open Debate

19 Ethics and the Vegan Way of Life
Les Burwood and Ros Wyeth
Your responses are invited to this challenging and thoughtful look at animal ethics.

Conference Briefing

23 The Mind/Aristotelian Society Joint Session

Wittgenstein and Forms of Life
Special Session

Wittgenstein Archive
Exhibition

What can evolution tell us about the human mind?
John Dupré

Primers

28 Sartre's Existential Humanism
Jeff Mason
A two-part look at the ideas behind Existentialism and Humanism, Sartre's popular but sketchy lecture.

30 Snapshots
Nietzsche
Christopher Budd
Daniel Dennett
Guy Douglas and Stewart Saunders

32 The Ontological Argument.
Roy Ahmed-Jackson
The third of a series examining problems in the philosophy of religion.

50 Introduction To Logic.
Francis Moorcroft
The second of a two part series picks up the story at Frege.

Special Forum: The Challenges of Science

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Four major interviews covering various ways in which philosophy responds to scientific advances.

Nancy Cartwright
How Scientific Laws Lie

Ted Honderich
Minds and Brains

Peter Singer
Darwin and Ethics

Alan Sokal
Misuses of Science

The Philosophers' Review

52-60 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

59 Sci-Phi
Matthew Iredale
A new regular common on the hard science that provokes hard thought.

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