ThPhilosoJ?hers'

Magazine

Issue Six • Spring 1999

Contents

NEWS AND REPORTS

6 NEWS Chisholm and Goodman obituaries, O'Neill in the Lords and more.

8 OPINION Brian Leiter'sregular column plus guest commentator, Tony Bruce.

9 MEDIA WATCH Starring Roger Scruton.

FEATURES

11 POKER-FACED TRUTH John Watkins At last, the truth about Popper, the poker and Wittgenstein.

12 MUCH ADO ABOUT POLLING Julian Baggini How a poll thrust philosophy into the limelight.

14 THE FUTURE OF REFERENCE Jeremy Stangroom The changing shape of the philosophy reference books.

ESSAYS

16 SPORT FOR THOUGHT Simon Eassom Why it's time to take the philosophy of sport seriously.

Hitting the headlines, p12

18 UNLIKELY PHILOSOPHY: NEUROTIC REALISM Simon Walter Lessons in aesthetics from the Saatchi Gallery in London.

20 POSTSTRUCTURALISM: WHAT'S IN IT FOR PHILOSOPHERS? Christopher Norris Making sense of Saussure'slegacy.

CONFERENCE BRIEFING

22 DANIEL DENNETT: A COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT Don Ross Does Dennett's thought add up to a coherent whole?

OPEN DEBATE

26 ETHICS AND THE VEGAN WAY OF LIFE Ros Wyeth and Les Burwood Your objections and the authors' replies to the article in Issue Four.