the philosophers’

magazine issue 32 • 4th quarter 2005

reporter 4news hound news, plus straw poll and mediawatch

11word of mouse games can make war, but not love

34stoic warriors Nancy Sherman on modern soldiers and an old ideal

39the secret Jew did Wittgenstein have a hidden agenda?

the lowdown 77the directory listings for UK and North America

78snapshotthelowdown on Peter Singer

12who’s Hume? why the great Scot is unappreciated in his home country

14omnivoreanewcolumn by Scott McLemee

15limb loathers should healthy limbs be amputated if their owners request it?

thoughts 18from 9/11-7/7 after Iraq and London, six writers revisit our 2001 forum

27sci-phididPopper put his theory into practice?

29friendsMarkVernonwondersiffriendship is up to our demands of it

33provocationsshouldthewaronterrorbelowerdownourlistofpriorities?

forum 46Oliver Letwin a Conservative view of social justice

50the general will Tony McWalter looks to Rousseau

55just association Norman Geras goes international

59equalityrethinking what it means to be equal

64democracyKeithDowding on the majority v. justice

68the real world Stuart White gets empirical in Stockport discussion 72my philosophy Joan Bakewell

74open debate your chance to debate affirmative action

80theory of knowledge the seventh in the introductory series examines testimony

83conceptualcarverydistinguishingthenecessaryandthecontingent review 84new books Blackburn, Hampshire and other worthy destinations last words 90Bertrand’sbreakfunandgames

93lettershavingevenmoreofyoursaythanusual

96the skeptic flabby thinking on lard arses subscriptions & TPM shop page 44

The Philosophers' Magazine/4th quarter 2005