Issues
Issue 46: May/June 2004
EDITORIAL
Trust the People
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: May/June 2004
Philosophy and the Mob • Cloned Kittens • Mice with Two Mothers • Philosophy Comes Top in New Zealand — News reports by Sue Roberts in London and Lisa Sangoi in New York
DEMOCRACY
A Ridiculously Brief Overview of Political Philosophy
A five-minute tour of some political thinkers and ideas by Anja Steinbauer.
Democracy Now
Paul Gregory on How to End Packages and Bundling.
McCarthyism and American Philosophy
John Capps argues that Senator McCarthy’s anti-Communist purges helped positivism to triumph over pragmatism in American universities in the 1950’s.
Plato’s Warning
Stuart Greenstreet on why global warming won’t be stopped.
ARTICLES
Animal Rights, Anthropomorphism & Traumatized Fish
Alistair Robinson examines whether animals can suffer.
Does the Philosophy of Art Have a Mind/Body Problem?
Christopher Perricone says that the short answer is “Yes” and the long answer is this article.
Feminism Wrecked My Yoga Class
Reflections on Critique and Freedom by Karen Kachra.
Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword
Mike Alder explains why mathematicians and scientists don’t like philosophy but do it anyway.
Politeness, Philosophy’s Neglected Companion
Raymond Boisvert extols an under-rated virtue.
LETTERS
Letters
Stroll On • Pax Gamez • Not So Bogus • Quantum doubts • Fishbones and Excellence • The Spirit of Zapffe • Different Kinds of Causes
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
Eight Years Old and Counting
by Joel Marks
The Alleged Fallacies of Evolutionary Theory
In Issue 44, Peter Williams claimed to have found numerous logical fallacies in the writings of Richard Dawkins. His article has provoked this blow-by-blow response from Massimo Pigliucci, Joshua Banta, Christen Bossu, Paula Crouse, Troy Dexter, Kerry Hansknecht and Norris Muth.
REVIEWS
Eroticism by Georges Bataille
Mark Price uncovers an urgent, thrusting book about love, sex, death and spirituality by Georges Bataille.
The Case Against the Democratic State by Gordon Graham & Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order by Ivo Mosley
What’s so hot about democracy? Edward Ingram considers two books which call it into question.
The Many Passions of the Christ
Our man with the popcorn and the Aramaic phrasebook Thomas Wartenberg explains why so many people have a problem with Mel Gibson’s flay ‘n’ slay epic, and why so many others think it really is the greatest story ever told.
FICTION
Sexual Healing
Another instructive and improving tale by the risque but virtuous Peter Cave.