Issues
Issue 79: June/July 2010
EDITORIAL
Law, Tolerance and Society
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
News: June/July 2010
Middlesex bowled out? • Soccer: Socrates crushed by Nietzsche • Venter team creates life • Haslanger is distinguished — News reports by Sue Roberts
LAW, TOLERANCE AND SOCIETY
A Buddhistic Contemplation of Impermanence from Death Row
Shawn Harte on a fleeting dream.
Does Surveillance Make Us Morally Better?
Emrys Westacott asks a probing question.
In Defense of Intolerance
Matthew Pianalto isn’t going to take it any more.
Truth and the Client’s Interest
Frederick Ochieng’-Odhiambo tells us why truth is sometimes sacrificed to law.
ARTICLES
A Kripkean Argument For Goatism
Bill Capra demonstrates that the fact that everything is a goat can be shown by a simple argument which draws on elementary modal principles.
An edited version of an address delivered at Antony Flew’s funeral
by John Rogers
Flew’s change-of-mind about God
by Rick Lewis
On ‘Useless’ Knowledge
William Tam finds uses for philosophy and other ‘useless’ arts.
The Power of Motherhood
Regan Penaluna introduces Damaris Masham (1659-1708).
What’s Wrong With The Enlightenment?
Not as much as some people think, says Phil Badger.
What Is Philosophy and How Do We Do It?
The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book.
OBITUARIES
Antony Flew (1923-2010)
by Piers Benn
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our thirty-third liminal list of looped linguistic links lovingly legislated by Deiradiotes.
LETTERS
Letters
Epistles to the Philosophers • Computing Conscience • Lost In Time • Taking Liberties • Piece of Mind
COLUMNS
How We Got To Sesame Street
Tim Madigan remembers Tim Cooney (1930-1999).
Not With A Whimper, But With A Bang!
by Joel Marks
My Bald Head
Raymond Tallis reveals the philosophical connection between medical ethics and hair loss.
REVIEWS
Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis et al
Grant Bartley scrutinizes an epic graphic biography of Bertrand Russell.
Wild Justice by Marc Bekoff & Jessica Pierce
Sherrie Lyons judges Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce on animal legal rights.
The Passenger
Ismar Badzic thinks about multiple identities.
FICTION
Philosophical Differences
Valentin Sawadsky commentates on the gulf between minds.
Philosophy For Pigs
by Bob Newman