the philosophers’

magazine issue 22 • 2nd quarter 2003

contents reporter 6news hound the regular round-up from the world of philosophy, including straw poll and mediawatch

11filming Derrida the making of an unlikely movie

13word of mouse how much of a threat is online child pornography?

15Homer sapien philosophy takes on popular culture – and wins

17no time to think the tiring truth about America’s biggest annual philosofest

18out & about Tim LeBon seeks philosophical counselling thoughts 19God goes missing Keith Ward thinks the almighty has shifted guise but is still under discussion

21sci-phiMathew Iredale’s regular science column looks at, but is not, fraud

22wisdom lost Nicholas Maxwell calls for a new revolution in academic philosophy

25provocationsMichaelLaBossiereisshockedtofindhimselfcorruptedbyGrandTheftAuto forum 28Rawls for beginners the basic ideas in John Rawls’s philosophy

32the life of Rawls a biographical sketch of the great thinker

34tributesaselection of memories and thoughts prompted by Rawls’s passing

35A Theory of Justice Jonathan Wolff on Rawls’s finest work

37the critics Chandran Kukathas on the challenges to Rawls

40Rawls in Europe Catherine Audard on the continental reception

43the vip Alan Haworth on why Rawls is a very important philosopher discussion 46open debate respond to Robert Ellis’s argument that creativity is being killed in philosophy

48Pierre Hadot the champion of the ancients talks to Jonathan Derbyshire the lowdown 50the directory listings for UK and US philosophy organisations subscriptions page 14

54conceptual carvery on telling Madonna’s essence from her accidents

52snapshotsthelowdown on Hobbes and Kripke

54explaining ethics part ten of Simon Eassom’s ethics primer casts an ironic eye on Richard Rorty review 56The Philosophy Gym by Stephen Law

57War and Self Defense by David Rodin

58Scepticism by Neil Gascoigne

59Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience by Giuseppina D’Oro

60The Cambridge Companion to Levinas, ed. by Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi

61Berkeley’s World by Tom Stoneham last words 62Bertrand’s break cartoons, quizes and the crossword

64lettersyourviews

66the skeptic is there intelligent life on Venus?

The Philosophers' Magazine/2nd quarter 2003