tpm t h e p h i l o s o p h e r s ’ m a g a z i n e Issue 51 • 1st quarter 2011
Contents …
ACTIONS & EVENTS
4 5 12 13 15 19
From the editor News Language, Spooks and Logic
Mediawatch Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media
Threads Rage against the experience machine
Philosophers in power Can they change politics?
Word of Mouse Computers that feel your pain
THOUGHTS
21 31 34 43
The Interview Martha Nussbaum fights for the liberal arts
Sci-Phi Do societies evolve?
TPM Essay Simon Blackburn on philosophy’s wrong turns
Wiping the slate clean Eve Garrard and David McNaughton on forgiveness
43
49 55
Letter from… Juraj Hvorecky in Prague
The psychology of happiness It’s not an exact science, say Aaron Jarden and Dan Weijers
FORUM
60
Philosophical intuitions Stephen Stich and Wesley Buckwalter present an x-phi parable
60
66 72
78
87
Is morality relative? Joshua Knobe asks the folk
Intending harm Mark Phelan has virtually no adverse side-effects
There’s nothing it’s l ike to see red Edouard Machery and Justin Sytsma on pains and perceptions
What’s the point of x-phi? David Papineau has doubts
89
Just make it stop Tamler Sommers demands an end to the x-phi debate
■ tpm 1ST QUARTER 2011
