ThPhilosoJ!hers'

Magazine

Issue Seven • Summer 1999

Contents

NEWS AND FEATURES

6 NEWS HOUND Iris Murdoch obituary, rights for primates, a massive web publishing project and more

8 OPINION Brian Leiter's regular column plus guest commentator, Les Burwood

9 MEDIA WATCH A review of philosophy as seen by the media

11 ALL MAPPED OUT Joseph Chandler A new way of presenting arguments

14 THE BIOGRAPHERS Julian Baggini Can we learn anything important from the biographies of the great philosophers?

Aesthetics, p16

ESSAYS

16 RAWLS OF AESTHETICS Per Brask and Mark Fortier John Rawls' ethical and political principles applied to aesthetics

18 UNLIKELY PHILOSOPHY: PYTHON & POSITIVISTS Gary Hardcastle A history of analytic philosophy according to Monty Python

Drugs, p21

DISCUSSION 21 OPEN DEBATE: THE MORALITY OF DRUG USE PaulS MacDonald Your responses are invited to this controversial essay for publication in a future issue

25 DISCOURSE: THE THIRD WAY Four philosophers discuss Blair, New Labour and the third way.