Issue 40 1st Quarter 2008

Contents

Reporter

5 News Hound
News, plus straw poll and mediawatch.

11 Baudrillard
A tribute to the French postmodernist philosopher.

13 Word of Mouse
Luciano Floridi rates the rankings.

14 The Pod Squad
Philosophy in sound and vision.

Thoughts

17 Side by Science
Hasok Chang describes his radical view of philosophy of science.

25 Sci-Phi
Can we avoid bad reasoning.

27 Decade of Loss
Brian Leiter assesses the effect of ten years of notable philosophers passing.

31 Provocations
Is it moral to spend cash on pets?

32 Education Fails
Why relativism has become the norm.

Forum - Ten by Ten

To mark ten years of TPM, we put ten questions to ten leading philosophers.

38 Simon Blackburn
40 Jerry Fodor
42 AC Grayling
44 Jaakko Hintikka
47 Alisdair MacIntyre
49 Colin McGinn
51 Martha Nussbaum
55 John Searle
59 Peter Singer
61 Slavoj Žižek

Discussion

64 My Philosophy
Broadcaster Melvyn Bragg.

68 Head to Head
Should gay bars be able to exclude heterosexuals.

74 Interview
Simon Critchley is infinitely demanding.

The Lowdown

78 The Directory
Listings of UK and US philosophy organisations.

79 Conceptual Carvery
All other things being equal, that is.

80 Snapshot
The lowdown on Seneca.

82 Pop Culture
The expertise of Jack Bauer, torturer.

Review

85 New books by Richard Rorty, Michael Sandel, and Charles Taylor; plus Socrates and beauty.

Last Words

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

94 Letters
Your views, plus blog highlights.

96 The Skeptic
Maybe it's not so mad to be frozen.