What Philosophers Think

What does evolution mean today? Do we have free will? How is technology changing the way we understand life? Where is God? Does art have a value? Is science the new philosophy? What are the ethics of making war? How does language hold meaning? Is freedom possible? These are only some of the questions addressed in What Philosophers Think, a collection of interviews with some of the world’s leading philosophers and intellectuals.

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