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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
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94 THE LOWDOWN 94 99 Pop culture Is Dumbledore gay? Snapshot: Paul Rée Free will is nonsense REVIEW 103 113 115 117 New books, etc honour, podcasts, dreams, samurai and goldfish Author Q&A Nancy Sherman on soldiers’ inner battles Imagine that Michelangelo behaving badly Review of reviews What the critics said LAST WORD 119 127 My philosophy Toby Young alienates yet more people The Skeptic Ghost writers 119 tpm t h e p h i l o s o p h e r s ’ m a g a z i n e Philosophy Press, Dunstan House, 14a St Cross Street, London, EC1N 8XA UK Tel: 020 7841 1959 Fax: 020 7242 1474 editor@philosophers.co.uk www.philosophersmag.com Editor-in-chief Editor Julian Baggini James Garvey Reviews editor Nina Power Production editor Matthew Humphrys Publisher Edward Milford Editorial Advisory Board Miranda Fricker, Simon Glendinning, Daniel D. Hutto, Susan James, David Papineau, Nina Power, Anthony Price, Jonathan Rée, Richard Schoch, Barry C Smith, Jonathan Wolff Design Layout Paul Cooper John Perkins Illustrations/Graphics Felix Bennett (cover), Pipo di Bressana, Adam Ferner, Gareth Southwell Contributors John Appleby, Ophelia Benson, Simon Blackburn, Wesley Buckwalter, Luciano Floridi, Eve Garrard, Tamar Szabó Gendler, Wendy Grossman, Lawrence Harvey, Harry Hoare, Robert J. Howell, Juraj Hvorecky, Mathew Iredale, Aaron Jarden, Jean Kazez, Joshua Knobe, Edouard Machery, David McNaughton, Benjamin Noys, David Papineau, Mark Phelan, Matthew Pianalto, Charles Pigden, Tamler Sommers, Stephen Stich, Justin Sytsma, Mark Vernon, Alex Voorhoeve, and Dan Weijers Contributors’ Notes Contact the editor to submit proposals. Please do not send unsolicited manuscripts. Distribution by (UK) Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN Tel: 020 8986 4854 (North America) Source Interlink, 27500 Riverview Center Blvd., Bonita Springs, Florida 34134; Tel: (239) 949-4450 Ubiquity Distributors Inc., 607 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 Tel: (718) 875 5491 Printed by Warwick Printing Tel: 01926 883355 www.warwickprinting.co.uk With thanks to Denis Collins, Olivia Wood Subscriptions UK: +44 (0) 1442 879097 North America: 1 800 444 2419 See page 11 for full details © 2009, The Philosophy Press Ltd and contributors ISSN 1354-814X All views expressed in TPM represent those of the authors of each article and do not necessarily reflect those of the editors or publishers. Cover: Original artwork by Felix Bennett. Design by Paul Cooper. 1ST QUARTER 2011 tpm ■

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THE LOWDOWN

94 99

Pop culture Is Dumbledore gay?

Snapshot: Paul Rée Free will is nonsense

REVIEW

103 113 115 117

New books, etc honour, podcasts, dreams, samurai and goldfish

Author Q&A Nancy Sherman on soldiers’ inner battles

Imagine that Michelangelo behaving badly

Review of reviews What the critics said

LAST WORD

119 127

My philosophy Toby Young alienates yet more people

The Skeptic Ghost writers

119

tpm t h e p h i l o s o p h e r s ’ m a g a z i n e

Philosophy Press, Dunstan House, 14a St Cross Street,

London, EC1N 8XA UK

Tel: 020 7841 1959

Fax: 020 7242 1474

editor@philosophers.co.uk www.philosophersmag.com

Editor-in-chief

Editor

Julian Baggini

James Garvey

Reviews editor

Nina Power

Production editor Matthew Humphrys Publisher Edward Milford

Editorial Advisory Board Miranda Fricker, Simon Glendinning, Daniel D. Hutto, Susan James, David Papineau, Nina Power, Anthony Price, Jonathan Rée, Richard Schoch, Barry C Smith, Jonathan Wolff

Design

Layout

Paul Cooper

John Perkins

Illustrations/Graphics Felix Bennett (cover), Pipo di Bressana,

Adam Ferner, Gareth Southwell

Contributors John Appleby, Ophelia Benson, Simon Blackburn, Wesley Buckwalter, Luciano Floridi, Eve Garrard, Tamar Szabó Gendler, Wendy Grossman, Lawrence Harvey, Harry Hoare, Robert J. Howell, Juraj Hvorecky, Mathew Iredale, Aaron Jarden, Jean Kazez, Joshua Knobe, Edouard Machery, David McNaughton, Benjamin Noys, David Papineau, Mark Phelan, Matthew Pianalto, Charles Pigden, Tamler Sommers, Stephen Stich, Justin Sytsma, Mark Vernon, Alex Voorhoeve, and Dan Weijers

Contributors’ Notes Contact the editor to submit proposals. Please do not send unsolicited manuscripts.

Distribution by (UK) Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN Tel: 020 8986 4854 (North America) Source Interlink, 27500 Riverview Center Blvd., Bonita Springs, Florida 34134; Tel: (239) 949-4450 Ubiquity Distributors Inc., 607 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 Tel: (718) 875 5491

Printed by Warwick Printing Tel: 01926 883355 www.warwickprinting.co.uk

With thanks to Denis Collins, Olivia Wood

Subscriptions UK: +44 (0) 1442 879097 North America: 1 800 444 2419 See page 11 for full details

© 2009, The Philosophy Press Ltd and contributors ISSN 1354-814X

All views expressed in TPM represent those of the authors of each article and do not necessarily reflect those of the editors or publishers.

Cover: Original artwork by Felix Bennett. Design by Paul Cooper.

1ST QUARTER 2011 tpm ■

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