Table of Contents

Peter Singer on Darwin and ethics Janet Radcliffe Richards on Darwin, nature and hubris Helena Cronin on evolutionary psychology Richard Dawkins on genes and determinism Alan Sokal on science and relativism Edward O. Wilson on science as the new philosophy Russell Stannard on science and religion John Harris on science, ethics and society Don Cupitt on the non-realist god Richard Swinburne on freedom and evil Peter Vardy on philosophy of religion Mary Midgley on Murdoch and morality Stuart Hampshire on justice and conflict Roger Scruton on art's value Mary Warnock on women philosophers Ray Monk on the dark side Ted Honderich on free will John Searle on realism Jonathan Rée on beyond realism and anti-realism Simon Blackburn on language matters Michael Dummett on truth and meaning Hilary Putnam on being out of our heads

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About the Author

Julian Baggini is co-editor (with Jeremy Stangroom) of The Philosophers' Magazine (www.philosophers.co.uk), Great Thinkers A-Z (2004) and New British Philosophy: The Interviews (2002). He is also the author of The Pig That Wants to be Eaten and What's It All About? Philosophy and the Meaning of Life (both Granta, 2005). Jeremy Stangroom is the author of the international bestseller Einstein’s Riddle and its sequels. His writing has also appeared in the Guardian, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Daily Telegraph, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.

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"The interviews are fun, informative, and easy to read. More importantly, they prove that philosophical questions that may sometimes seem to abstract and distant from everyday life to matter can have a large impact on how one chooses to live one's live....the end result is a voume that is both relaxing and stimulating."-Philosophy in Review, Dec 2003