Issues
Issue 27: June/July 2000
EDITORIAL
The Grim Reader
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: June/July 2000
Philosopher beats blasphemy charge • Feuding Aussie thinkers face forced merger • Scientists aim to abolish ageing • End of universe cancelled
Philosophy & Life: A View from Vietnam
One of Vietnam’s leading academic philosophers Vu Tinh describes the role of philosophy in his country and in the world at large.
DEATH
Death in Classical Daoist Thought
Bernard Down explains how two ancient Chinese philosophers explored new perspectives on matters of life and death.
Death, Faith & Existentialism
Filiz Peach explains what two of the greatest existentialist thinkers thought about death: Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers.
On Not Being
Peter Cave discusses the idea that not existing has never hurt anyone.
ARTICLES
E.O. Wilson on the Foundations of Ethics
Can gene-culture evolution, rather than philosophy, answer our deepest ethical questions? Torin Alter on moral values and the appliance of science.
Philosophical Viruses
Richard Taylor on how language can mislead us.
Whatever Happened to Happiness?
Adam Potkay says there was always much more to happiness than just feelin’ good. He argues that we should once again recognise that the good life is the happy life.
When it Comes to the Crunch
Trevor Emmott probes David Hume’s unreasonable view of cause and effect.
Round Table Debate: Science versus Philosophy?
Given the success of science, do we really need philosophy? Four distinguished scientists and philosophers and about 170 members of the public gathered in a London bookstore to hammer out the issues. This robust and good-humoured Round Table was the second in the series held by Philosophy Now and Philosophy For All to examine how philosophy relates to other ways of seeing the world.
Arthur Danto
by Rick Lewis
QUIZ
Andrew’s Quiz
by Andrew Dodsworth
INTERVIEWS
Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton, the foxhunting philosopher has written a new book on Animal Rights and Wrongs. He talked with Anja Steinbauer about Kant, duties and pet rabbits.
LETTERS
Letters
Beyond a Joke? • Paul Wasn’t a Control Freak • Who Cares Whether God Exists? • Nietzsche Rambles
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
The Truth about Lying
A new column by Joel Marks.
REVIEWS
A Philosophy of Mass Art by Noel Carroll
Bob Sharpe considers art for the masses, the topic of a new book by Noel Carroll.
The African Philosophy Reader
William King ponders a collection of essays which show the diversity of African philosophy.
Films and existential angst
Ladies and gentlemen… 21st Century Philosophy Now is proud to present the first showing in a new series of philosophical film articles by Thomas Wartenberg. In this installment he looks at American Beauty, Fight Club and Being John Malkovich.
FICTION
Restaurant Metaphysics
Mark Leech on causality and coffee.