Issue 6 Spring 1999

Contents

News and Reports

6 News
Chisholm and Goodman obituaries; O'Neill in the Lords; and more.

8 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus guest commentator Tony Bruce.

9 MediaWatch
Starring Roger Scruton.

Features

11 Poker-Faced Truth
John Watkins
At last, the truth about Popper, the poker and Wittgenstein.

12 Much Ado About Polling
Julian Baggini
How a poll thrust philosophy into the limelight.

14 The Future of Reference
Jeremy Stangroom
The changing shape of philosophy reference tools.

Essays

16 Sport For Thought
Simon Eassom
Why it is time to take the philosophy of sport seriously.

18 Unlikely Philosophy: Neurotic Realism
Simon Walter
Lessons in aesthetics from the Saatchi Gallery in London.

20 Poststructuralism: What's In It For Philosophers?
Christopher Norris
Making sense of Derrida and company.

Conference Briefing

22 Daniel Dennett: A Comprehensive Assessment
Don Ross
Does Dennett's thought add up to a coherent whole?

Open Debate

26 Ethics And The Vegan Way Of Life
Ros Wyeth and Les Burwood.
Your objections and the authors' replies to the article in Issue Four.

Primers

30 Snapshots
C S Peirce
Jack Ritchie
Immanuel Kant
Peter Herrisone-Kelly

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

Free Will and Determinism

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Sixteen pages on the puzzle that won't go away.

Mapping The Debate
Mathew Iredale

Interviews
Daniel Dennett
Richard Dawkins
Ted Honderich

Spinoza: Freedom In Necessity
Timothy Sprigge

Keeping The Dogs Of Determinism At Bay
Tom Clark

See also extract in The Philosophers' Review, p. 51.

The Philosophers' Review

51-58 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

29 Sci-Phi

59 Q&A

60 Darryl's Diary (Events)
Darryl Staflund

61 Philosophy@The.Internet

62 Paradoxes

63 Bertrand's Break

64 From Our Own Correspondence

66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman