Back Issues
Issue 31
March/April 2001
EDITORIAL
Food for Thought
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
PHILOSOPHY & FOOD
Introduction
Are we what we eat? Feast your mind on the next few articles, says this issue's editor Jeremy Iggers, philosopher and restaurant critic.
Philosophy Regains its Senses
Ray Boisvert describes the disdain which many philosophers down the ages have had for food, and the dire consequences this has had for their philosophy.
Do You Really Know How to Cook?
Lisa Heldke sticks up for the pastry chefs against Plato and the physicians.
OTHER ARTICLES
Kant and the Thing in Itself
Ralph Blumenau on why things may not be what they seem to be.
Preference, Satisfaction and the Good
Michael Philips wonders what you really, really want.
Why Should I Care About Morality?
Arnold Zuboff keeps asking a dangerous question - whether anyone has any real reason to act morally. He thinks it has led him to a new basis for ethics.
The Reproductive Psychology of Inanimate Objects
Edward Ingram thinks your television is manipulating you.
Intelligent Design: a Catechism
How did life on Earth come about? Recently the buzzword among those dissatisfied with Darwinism has been 'Intelligent Design'. But isn't this just another name for Creationism? Not so, argues Todd Moody.
The Philosophers' Ship
In 1922 Lenin sent Russia's best philosophers off on a cruise and told them not to come home unless they wanted to be shot. Alexander Razin and Tatiana Sidorina describe a 'humanitarian act' by a totalitarian regime.
The Library of Living Philosophers: Georg Hendrik von Wright
by Yujin Nagasawa
INTERVIEW
Peter Singer
He is a Professor of Bioethics at Princeton. Notorious for his views on issues such as euthanasia, he is also revered as a founding father by the animal rights movement. Jeremy Iggers asked him about the treatment of farm animals and about his own strict vegetarianism.
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers' questions.
Moral Moments: Right by Definition
by Joel Marks
OBITUARIES
Willard V. Quine
by Paul O'Grady
Elizabeth Anscombe
by Duncan Richter
LETTERS
Opinions on More Theology, More Falsification, Miraculous Coughs, Idle Speculation, and more...
BOOKS
Is eating "a small exercise in mortality"? Erin McKenna consumes a tasteful but non-fattening book by Carolyn Korsmeyer while Robert Taylor ponders the politics of the information age with Donald Wilhelm.
FILMS
What happens when the barrier between our 'real' world and the fantasy world of film starts to crumble? Our man in the front row with the popcorn Thomas Wartenberg watches Nurse Betty succumb to madness.
POETRY
Phaedo
by Tim Chappell
Elsewhere
by Tim Chappell
SHORT STORY
Living Light
by Alistair Fruish