Back Issues
Issue 63
September/October 2007
EDITORIAL
Education for All
by Rick Lewis
NEWS
French told to think less, Top Islamic philosopher dies, Georgetown embraces the Middle Ages
EDUCATION
Playing Nice and Teaching Good
Carolyn Suchy-Dicey considers the dilemma of teaching moral autonomy.
Philosophising About Moral Education 
Graham Haydon thinks about what it is to think about moral education.
What is it to be a Human Knower?
Jan Derry wants to know what it is to know.
Teaching Philosophy vs Teaching To Philosophise
Pablo Cevallos Estarellas reviews the developments that caused professional to triumph over amateur philosophy in education, and proposes a way forward.
Climbing the Real Mountain
Rebecca Glass on the importance of fables of ‘the really real world’.
Of Adolescents and The Aristotle
Michael J. Brown finds assumptions challenged in his Philosophy Club.
OTHER ARTICLES
Saving the Self
Following on from our last issue, Raymond Tallis defends personal identity from those who say the self is an illusion.
Logical Lo: Hanging Around
Peter Cave has a new book just out, of philosophical puzzles old and new. Here, Peter tells the tale of Logical Lo and her reasoning.
Who Started All This Philosophy Business?
Carl Murray reports on a heated argument in Hades.
Being and Time – The Musical!
Grant Bartley sees the funny side of Martin Heidegger.
The Gettier Problem No Longer a Problem
Lukasz Lozanski claims to know why Edmund Gettier was unjustified.
CROSSWORD
Crossword
Our seventeeth sexy set of sophisticated symbols stirred and sorted by Deiradiotes.
INTERVIEWS
Randall Curren
Randall Curren is Professor of Philosophy and Education and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Rochester, NY. Tim Madigan talks to him.
QUESTION OF THE MONTH
Why Should I Be Good?
The following readers’ answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book.
LETTERS
Opinions on The Art of Kraft, Family Fallacies, Homo sapiens 2.0 and more...
COLUMNS
Dear Socrates
Our celebrity columnist answers readers’ questions.
Moral Moments: Rematch
by Joel Marks
Science: Fieldnotes From The Borderlands
Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci reports.
BOOKS
Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life by Roger Scruton
Robert Cheeks praises an intellectual memoir by Roger Scruton, Britain’s best-known conservative philosopher.
A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism by Roger Scruton
Floris van den Berg criticises Roger Scruton’s splendid isolation.
FILMS
The Politics of Education
Judith Suissa considers the intersection of political philosophy and philosophy of education in Alan Bennett’s new film The History Boys.