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Books
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 One Hundred Philosophers (2004)
- U.S.A.: Barron's Educational Books
- U.K.: Apple Press
- Australia: A.B.C. Books
- "There ain't half been some clever bastards" (Ian Dury)
- The book covers the history of philosophy chronologically from Thales of Miletus (6th century BCE) to Peter Singer (b.1946 CE), with
philosophers from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the U.S.A., about 60% getting a page, 40% two pages.
Scattered through the book are brief introductions to such topics as African, Chinese, and Indian philosophy, scepticism, women in
philosophy, mind and body, the philosophy of science, and moral philosophy. The book's divided into periods, each with its own
introduction and timeline of other important events. There's also a glossary, suggested further reading, and an index.
- The book has been published in a number of languages, including Chinese, Estonian, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, and
Portuguese. The French and Estonian editions, at least (I haven't seen the others), have omitted the article on Putnam and replaced it
with one on Derrida — with no indication that the new material isn't by me.
 Is Nothing
Sacred?
- An introduction to the philosophy of religion, in the form of dialogues. I've put some of the completed dialogues here (as PDF
files); a couple are also available as HTML Web pages: The Problem of Evil:
I (originally published in Philosophical Writings 9, 1998) and Morality & Religion: I. Another of the dialogues – on
Petitionary Prayer – is due to be published in the Richmond Journal of
Philosophy in 2006.
(I originally offered this book to Routledge, who showed interest, but my work on it was interrupted; they've since published another
book with the same title — so I'm now looking for a new title, and a different publisher).
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Papers |
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One
Man's Meat is Another Man's Person? - a brief abstract
Due to be published in Mind: Its Place in the World, edd Alexander Batthyany, Dimitri Constant, & Avshalom Elitzur
(Ontos Verlag)
Lycan on Lewis
and Meinong
Originally published in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society xciii, 1993.
Other Times - a brief abstract.
Published in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73:4, December 1995.
Parapsychology
with out the "para" (or the psychology) [PDF file]
Published in Think 3, 2003.
Comment on a comment on "No
Plaything"
Ethel Quayle, the director of the COPINE project, University College Cork, in collaboration with Lars Loofand Tink Palmer, wrote a paper in which she
seriously misrepredented my views. I wrote to her about it, but was ignored. This explains things in a little more detail.
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Reviews |
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African Philosophy
A review of African Philosophy: The Essential Readings,
ed. Tsenay Serequeberhan (Paragon House, 1991). Originally published in
Philosophical Books XXXIII:2, 1992. I've included this
largely because it contains some ideas that illustrate what I said in my
note on philosophy (see the index page).
Readings in African Philosophy
A review of Readings in African Philosophy: An Akan Collection,
ed. Safro Kwame (University Press of America, 1995). Originally published
in Canadian Philosophical Review. I've included this as a continuation and expansion of some of the thoughts
in the previous piece.
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
Review of a book by Frans de Waal for Human Nature Review 2004 Volume 4: 130-132 (23rd May).
Web Pages
Some of the links in the Philosophers section are to pages that I've set up - usually because no-one
else had, and I regretted the omission, sometimes for other reasons. I'm slowly adding more, some relatively obscure, some not. So far
they include:
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- Democracy
and Anti-Democrats
- A rather journalistic piece on the question of what should be done
when anti-democrats look as though they're going to win democratic elections.
- Against
Tolerance
- Another rather journalistic piece. This one was originally published
in Philosophy
Now 11, Winter 1994/95.
- For Intolerance
- The last paper was replied to by Jonathan Gorman in Philosophy Now 12.
My response to his piece arrived too late to be included in issue 13, and
the editor has decided that the resulting gap would be too wide for the
discussion to continue into issue 14. So here's my reply, exclusive to
the Web...
- Smoking & Science
- A short squib (fag end?) concerning some smokers' reactions to recent
scientific research.
- The Limits of Creation
- Musings on the dependence of a writer's creations on their creator's
abilities.
- Slogans & Blinkers
- A short piece on a confusion in the abortion debate.
- The Culture
Card
- Thoughts on the use of the terms "culture" &
"tradition" in polemic.
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- The Poetry Section
- Inspecting the Wounds. A selection of poems, most of them written a
fair time ago.
- The Sockets of Golgotha. Another collection, again fairly elderly.
- Nepenthe. (with Andrea Christofidou) A small selection of
translations from Kostas Karyotakis' 1921 book.
- Artificial Flowers. (with Andrea Christofidou) A selection of
translations from the poetry of Kavafis.
- Potted Philosophers. A few clerihew-type sketches.
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- About me
- A little information about me (leading to information about here) -
though you've probably already seen it in Note 2 on the first page.
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