Issue 5 Winter 1999

Contents

News and Reports

6 News
The world's favourite philosopher; the analytic top 100; and more.

9 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus Roy A. Jackson tackles the Pope.

10 MediaWatch
Hedgehogs, Hands and Hunting.

Features

12 The Nazi Legacy
Hans-Joachim Niemann
How Germany's fear of euthanasia led to the resignation of a humane philosopher.

14 Socrates in Practice
Sule Elkatip
Can business people learn from Socratic Dialogue?

Essays

17 Ghosts and Minds
Michael LaBossiere
We all know what ghosts are, but are there philosophical reasons for believing that they could really exist?

19 Injustice
Thomas W. Simon
Simon argues that before we strive for justice, we must first remove injustice.

Unlikely Philosophy

21 The Millennium Dome
Simon Walter
The true significance of the Dome and its contents.

Primers

28 Sartre's Existential Humanism
Jeff Mason
The second part of a look at the ideas behind Existentialism and Humanism, Sartre's popular but sketchy lecture.

30 Snapshots
John Locke
Jonathan Walmsely
David Hume
Peter Fosl

32 Religious Experience.
Roy Ahmed-Jackson
The series examining problems in the philosophy of religion continues.

The World Congress of Philosophy

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Reporting from the largest gathering of philosophers in history, with exclusive interviews with some of the top speakers.

Interviews:

Martha Nussbaum
Cultivating Humanity

Jaegwon Kim & Sydney Shoemaker
Mind-Body Problems

Emmanuel Eze
Democracy in Africa

Richard Swinburne
God and Evil

Arthur Fine
Philosophy of Science Today

Ouyang Kang
Chinese Marxism Today

Michael Ayers
Empiricism

Reports:

All Together Now?
An overview of the event

Living Legends
Six of the biggest names in world philosophy around one table...

The Philosophers' Review

56-61 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

23 Paradoxes

24 Q&A

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

26 Darryl's Diary (Events)
Darryl Staflund

27 Philosophy@The.Internet

64 From Our Own Correspondence

66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman