ThPhilosoJ!hers'

Magazine issue ten • spring 2000

contents

NEWS AND FEATURES

6 NEWS HOUND Stories you may have missed, including withdrawn books, euthanasia and bestsellers

8 OPINION Brian Leiter's regular column plus guest comment from Martin Cohen

9 MEDIA WATCH Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media

11 TEACHING THINKING Joseph Chandler How critical thinking has found its way into class rooms - but with philosophers left outside

13 IN AT THE DEEP END Jeremy Hayward and Gerald Jones Is activity-centred teaching the way ahead?

ESSAYS

15 DEGRADATION Jim McManus A front-line view of the issues of prisons and degradation raised in TPMB

Emotions, p19

17 JE DEFENDS BERGSON John Mullarkey Why the French thinker does not deserve ridicule

19 THE EMOTIONS Paul Harkin Reason's old enemy is being taken seriously again

DISCUSSION

23 OPEN DEBATE: WHY IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE MORAL Steve Schwartz Your responses are invited to this challenging essay