What Philosophers Think

Peter Singer on Darwin and ethicsJanet Radcliffe Richards on Darwin, nature and hubrisHelena Cronin on evolutionary psychologyRichard Dawkins on genes and determinismAlan Sokal on science and relativismEdward O. Wilson on science as the new philosophyRussell Stannard on science and religionJohn Harris on science, ethics and societyDon Cupitt on the non-realist godRichard Swinburne on freedom and evilPeter Vardy on philosophy of religionMary Midgley on Murdoch and moralityStuart Hampshire on justice and conflictRoger Scruton on art's valueMary Warnock on women philosophersRay Monk on the dark sideTed Honderich on free willJohn Searle on realismJonathan Rée on beyond realism and anti-realismSimon Blackburn on language mattersMichael Dummett on truth and meaningHilary Putnam on being out of our heads

"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

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 co-editor, with Julian Baggini, of The Philosophers' Magazine and co-author of Do You Think What You Think You Think? (Granta, 2006), What Philosophers Think and Great Thinkers A-Z. He and Ophelia Benson are co-authors of Why Truth Matters and The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense (Souvenir, 2004).