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Issue Four e Autumn 1998

Contents

NEWS ANiD REPORTS

6 NEWS Singer surrounded by controversy, Lyotard obituary, World Congress and a bizarre conference acronym.

8 MEDIA WATCH Philosophy in the media with Sartre's rat, O'Hear and Diana Chris Eubank and more. '

FEATURES

10 COURSE OR CULT? Jeremy Stangroom What do you think you'd be getting if you signed up for a course in philosophy? You may be surprised...

12 OLDER AND WISER Timothy Hilgenberg and Mandy Wax What's in store for prospective mature students of philosophy.

ESSAYS

14 UNLIKELY PHILOSOPHY: DIANA THE REPUBLICAN Rupert Read The third in the series suggests the late Princess of Wales should be seen as a Nietzschean.

16 MODULAR MADNESS Bob Sharpe Is the modular theory of mind a confused piece of pseudo-scientific thinking?

18 QUESTIONS ON RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY Sule Elkatip A personal view of the relationship between faith and reason.

OPEN DEBATE

19 ETHICS AND THE VEGAN WAY OF LIFE Les Burwood and Ros Wyeth Your responses are invited to this challenging but thoughtful look at animal ethics.

CONFERENCE BRIEfiNG

23 THE MIND/ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY JOINT SESSION. A report from Britain's biggest annual gathering of philosophers.

WITTGENSTEIN AND FORMS OF LIFE Special Session WITTGENSTEIN ARCHIVE Exhibition WHAT CAN EVOLUTION TELL US ABOUT THE HUMAN MIND? John Dupre