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561The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and MethodsWiley-Blackwell. 2002.The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflection Features significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the history of philosophy This edition has a broad, pluralistic approach--appealing to readers in both continental philosophy and the history of philosophy, as well as analytic philosophy Explains difficu…Read more
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475What's it all about?: philosophy and the meaning of lifeOxford University Press. 2005.What is the meaning of life? It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers--and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the whole idea strikes many of us as vaguely pompous, a little absurd. Is there one profound and mysterious meaning to life, a single ultimate purpose behind human existence? In What's It All About?, Julian Baggini says no, there is no single meaning. Instead, Baggini argues meaning can be found in a variety of ways, in this life. He succinctly brea…Read more
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383Security and the 'war on terror': a roundtableIn Julian Baggini & Jeremy Strangroom (eds.), What More Philosophers Think, Continuum. pp. 19-32. 2007.What is the appropriate legal response to terrorist threats? This question is discussed by politician Tony McWalter, The Philosophers' Magazine editor Julian Baggini, and philosophers Catherine Audard, Saladin Meckled-Garcia, and Alex Voorhoeve.
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197Brainy brawlersThe Philosophers' Magazine 35 (35): 66-69. 2006.“It’s not good enough to say there’s some mechanism such that you start out with amoebas and you end up with us. Everybody agrees with that. The question is in this case in the mechanical details. What you need is an account, as it were step by step, about what the constraints are, what the environmental variables are, and Darwin doesn’t give you that.”
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170Darwin’s empty ideaThe Philosophers' Magazine 49 (49): 23-32. 2010.“It’s not good enough to say there’s some mechanism such that you start out with amoebas and you end up with us. Everybody agrees with that. The question is in this case in the mechanical details. What you need is an account, as it were step by step, about what the constraints are, what the environmental variables are, and Darwin doesn’t give you that.”
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99Michael Martin (ed.) The cambridge companion to atheism.Religious Studies 44 (3): 367-371. 2008.
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94Philosophical autobiographyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 45 (3). 2002.An examination of the genre of philosophical autobiography sheds light on the role of personal judgment alongside objective rationality in philosophy. Building on Monk's conception of philosophical biography, philosophical autobiography can be seen as any autobiography that reveals some interplay between life and thought. It is argued that almost all autobiographies by philosophers are philosophical because the recounting of one's own life is almost invariably a form of extended speech act of se…Read more
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85A piece of iMe: An interview with David ChalmersThe Philosophers' Magazine (43): 41-49. 2008.The radical view, the view we’re kind of pushing, is that the iPhone can be seen literally as a part of my mind. I actually remember things: in virtue of this information being in the iPhone, it is part of my memory. The iPhone isn’t just a tool for my cognition, it’s part of my cognition
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84In defence of honourThe Philosophers' Magazine 53 (53): 22-31. 2011.The object of the exercise is to understand what we can do to stop something bad. It would be better if people stopped for the purest of motives, but it’s best if they stop. And if the choice is between their stopping for the wrong reasons and their not stopping I favour their stopping for the wrong reasons. Kant may be right that people ought to stop killing because they see that it’s wrong. That ought to be enough, but it may not be, and if it isn’t, if there’s something else that can actually…Read more
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84Alien Ways of Thinking, on Stephen Mulhall On FilmFilm-Philosophy 7 (3). 2003.Stephen Mulhall _On Film_ London and New York: Routledge, 2002 ISBN 0-415-24796-9 142 pp
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83Atheism: A Very Short IntroductionOxford University Press. 2003.Do you think of atheists as immoral pessimists who live their lives without meaning, purpose, or values? Think again! Atheism: A Very Short Introduction sets out to dispel the myths that surround atheism and show how a life without religious belief can be positive, meaningful, and moral.
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78The philosopher’s philosopherThe Philosophers' Magazine 41 (41): 18-25. 2008.My father really looked forward to reading my book and then was terribly disappointed when he found it was unreadable. One of the reader’s reports for the press when it was published said ‘This book is written ordinary English – there are no symbols, little of what could be called technical terminology – but this appearance is entirely misleading’.
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76Making sense: philosophy behind the headlinesOxford University Press. 2002.Making Sense examines the philosophical issues and disputes that lie behind the news headlines of the day. We read about what is happening in the world, but how do we know what the truth is, or whether there is one 'truth' at all? A president has his private sexual affairs discussed and analyzed by everyone, but is the private life of anyone the proper moral concern of others? A war against terrorism is declared, but what justifies the use of armed forces with its inevitable loss of life? Making…Read more
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67Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 94 111-115. 2021.
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63Hay on whyThe Philosophers' Magazine 47 20-22. 2009.Philosophy has become more and more abstracted from people’s daily lives, so in a way, philosophers are a kind of joke in Britain. The only time they appearis in comedy and it seems to me really important to do something about this
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59Twelve Challenging Rounds With a Contemporary Classic (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 1 (1): 59-59. 1997.
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54Britain’s best-loved dope dealerThe Philosophers' Magazine 54 (54): 121-126. 2011.“His hypothesis is that if you take dope you’re going to end up taking smack, but he’d actually got an incorrect application of Bayes’ theorem... the gateway theory, all obviously complete bollocks, based on a professor’s ineptitude in statistics.”
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