Issues
Issue 36: June/July 2002
EDITORIAL
What’s On Your Mind?
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: June/July 2002
Religious Fervour in Derby • Cloned Rabbits Begin to Breed • Growing Human Organs for Fun and Profit • Happy Philosophy Day!
MIND & MORALS
Consciousness Resurrected
Güven Güzeldere asks where we are now with the mind-body problem.
Crossing Cultures in Moral Psychology
David Wong on two ancient Chinese philosophers with very different approaches to moral reasoning.
Mind & Morals
An introduction to our special section by this issue’s editor, Charles Echelbarger.
Philosophizing about the Mind
Massimo Pigliucci takes a brief look at the history and current schools of philosophy of mind.
ARTICLES
Liberty, Logic & Abortion
Mark Goldblatt analyses the moral and legal arguments on both sides of America’s most divisive issue.
Money Talk
“Loan”? “Borrow”? “Growth”? “Seed money”? Michael Philips finds such talk hard to credit.
Moral Relativism & Cultural Chauvinism
Members of different cultures with different values and beliefs come into frequent conflict, sometimes violent. Exploiter or entrepreneur? Murderer or martyr? “Great Satan” or “Great – Santa!” Gerald Lang asks if we can still pass judgment.
Philosophy and the Panopticon
Surveillance cameras watch our every move. They reduce crime and maybe save lives. So why the fuss about privacy? Scott O’Reilly discusses the technologies of control.
What Can You Do With Philosophy, Anyway?
Jeremiah Conway says that philosophy is profoundly useless but incredibly worthwhile.
OBITUARIES
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)
by Anja Steinbauer
INTERVIEWS
Jennifer Hornsby
Jennifer Hornsby is a philosopher based at London’s Birkbeck College, whose interests range from feminism to philosophy of mind. Giancarlo Marchetti talked with her recently at a conference in Italy.
LETTERS
Letters
Charlton Heston • Divine Intervention • Arguments and Fallacies • Unsympathetic Male • Boils and Biographies • Sex and Particle Physics • More Science Fiction • Spanish Inquisition “Not Expected”
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.
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
by Joel Marks
REVIEWS
Defending Animal Rights by Tom Regan
Lisa Kemmerer cheers on Tom Regan as he defends the idea of animals having rights.
Dreaming Souls by Owen Flanagan
Ilya Farber discovers a dream of a book by the quirky and perceptive Owen Flanagan.
Body Worlds, The Atlantis Gallery, London
Chris Bloor found Body Worlds, an unusual show of dead bodies in London, to be essential viewing.
Eat Art, Busch-Reisinger Museum Harvard University
Anna Winestein loathed the Eat Art exhibition at Harvard.
Together
Thomas Wartenberg watches a radical movie about some unlikely couples grappling with homophobia, feminist ideology and each other in a 1970s Swedish commune… and enjoys it!
FICTION
Born Free
Trevor Emmott reports on a future project to create perfect freedom.