Issue 7 Summer 1999

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
Iris Murdoch obituary, rights for primates, a massive web publishing project and more.

8 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus guest commentator Les Burwood.

9 MediaWatch
A review of philosophy as seen by the media.

Features

11 All Mapped Out
Joseph Chandler
A new way of presenting arguments.

14 The Biographers
Julian Baggini
Can we learn anything important from the biographies of the great philosophers?

Essays

16 Rawls of Aesthetics
Per Brask and Mark Fortier
John Rawls' ethical and political principles applied to aesthetics.

18 Unlikely Philosophy: Python and Positivists
Gary Hardcastle
A history of analytic philosophy according to Monty Python.

Discussion

21 Open Debate: The Morality of Drug Use
Paul S. MacDonald
Your responses are invited to this controversial essay for publication in a future issue.

25 Discourse: The Third Way
Four philosophers discuss Blair, New Labour and The Third Way.

Conference Briefing

27 The Crisis in Analytic Philosophy
Is Anglophone philosophy becoming post-analytic?

Primers

30 Snapshots
Karl Popper
Andrew H Talbot
Boethius
Stephen P Stewart

32 The Problem of Evil
Roy A. Jackson
The series examining problems in the philosophy of religion continues.

Women In Philosophy

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Sixteen pages on women thinkers and themes of gender.

Introduction
Terri Collier

Interviews
Mary Warnock
Mary Midgley on Iris Murdoch

50 Years of The Second Sex
Stella Sandford

A Tradition of Mysogyny
Berverley Clack

Birth, Death and Metaphysics
Christine Battersby

The Philosophers' Review

51-57 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

20 The Clinic
Philosophical councelling in action

58 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