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  1. Among this week's contributors

    John Burnett is Professor of Social History at Brunel University. His books include Idle Hands: The experience of unemployment, 1790-1990, 1994. Lesley Chamberlain's most recent book is In a Place...

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  2. The seductions of reason

    ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY. Edward Craig, editor. 8,136pp. Routledge. Pounds 1,695 (Pounds 1,995 with CD-ROM). - 0 415 07310 3. Encyclopaedia" is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as...

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  3. Luck swallows everything

    Can our sense of free will be true? Are we free agents? Can we be morally responsible for what we do? Philosophers distinguish these questions and have all the answers. Some say yes and yes (we are...

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  4. For and against Descartes

    SIMPLE MINDEDNESS. In defense of naive naturalism in the philosophy of mind. By Jennifer Hornsby. 265pp. Harvard University Press. Pounds 23.50. - 0 674 80818 5. These days there is so much agreement...

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  5. Mere specks of dust?

    RELATIVISM, SUFFERING AND BEYOND. Essays in memory of Bimal K. Matilal. P. Bilimoria and J. N. Mohanty, editors. 381pp. Oxford University Press. Pounds 19.99. - 0 19 563858 1. COMPANION ENCYCLOPEDIA...

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  6. Lessons in Mentalese

    CONCEPTS. Where cognitive science went wrong. By Jerry A. Fodor. 174pp. Oxford University Press. Pounds 30 (paperback, Pounds 12.99). - 0 19 823637 9. Fodor's theory of mind and its problems With no...

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  7. "The Cocktail Party"

    (Photograph) - "The Cocktail Party", 1992, by Sandy Skoglund; from her book of photographs Reality Under Siege: A retrospective (119pp. Abrams. Pounds 25. - 0 8109 4185 6)

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  8. Deceiving into truth

    CHRISTIAN DISCOURSES. The crisis and a crisis in the life of an actress. by Soren Kierkegaard. 489pp. Pounds 39.50. - 0 691 01649 6. WITHOUT AUTHORITY. by Soren Kierkegaard. 317pp. Pounds 35. 0 691...

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  9. The meaning of 'genocide'

    Sir, - I am grateful to Roger W. Smith (Letters, June 12) for reminding me that one cannot argue with Humpty-Dumpty. Let him continue to maintain his - surely rather odd - distinction between total...

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  10. Love in a quarry

    BROTHER TO DRAGONS. By David Hartnett. 440pp. Cape. Paperback, Pounds 9.99. - 0 224 05015 X. David Hartnett's obvious delight in language (he is also the author of three collections of poetry) is the...

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  11. The dark not light enough

    DOSTOEVSKY AND SOLOVIEV. The art of integral vision. By Marina Kostalevsky. 224pp. Yale University Press. Pounds 21. - 0 300 06096 3. One might say that the paramount concern of Russian philosophy is...

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  12. Freelance

    Two pieces of art have arrived at Sacy-le-Petit for the Midsummer's Day opening. Cars keep doing double-takes and reversing back past the front gate as they catch sight of Andrew Logan's larger than...

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  13. NB

    Who gets the royalties from Mein Kampf? Hitler's account of his "Four-and-a-Half-Year Struggle against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice" (the book's original title) was first published in Britain in...

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  14. The character and aims of Francis Bacon

    Sir, - In his review of Hostage to Fortune: The troubled life of Francis Bacon, 1561-1626 (June 18), Brian Vickers shows the flimsy foundations on which its authors, Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart,...

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  15. The Jewish State

    Sir, - It is always easier to blame others for self-inflicted disasters, and Robin Yassin-Kassab (Letters, June 12) is no exception to this rule. Fifty years after the 1948 war, the author still...

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