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Corrupting the Youth
A history of philosophy in Australia
by James Franklin
Philosophers deal with hard and basic questions — the meaning of life, whether the mind is more than the brain, whether people have more rights than animals. Their answers affect how they and their students conduct their lives, make legal decisions, think about politics.
Corrupting the Youth follows a large cast of Australian thinkers, from admirable geniuses to dangerous fanatics, as they struggle with fundamental questions, argue, write and plot. Aboriginal philosophy, nineteenth century idealism, John Anderson's Sydney realism, Sixties hedonism, feminist and environmental philosophy and the ethics of Peter Singer and his opponents pass in review as philosophers, judges, Communists, priests, teachers, doctors and students promote their visions of the way the world is and how life should be lived.
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Anything Goes
Origins of the cult of scientific irrationalism
by David Stove
The most acrimonious controversy within intellectual debate today is over the status of Western science. Since the publication of the now famous Sokal hoax, the ‘science wars' have erupted. Critics from radical sociology, cultural studies and science studies have charged that, instead of being a universally valid method of attaining knowledge, science provides only an ethnocentric view of the world. Their opponents have replied that the debate has become a site of political demagoguery, theoretical obfuscation and plain ignorance.
The most remarkable book in this whole debate is Anything Goes by the Australian philosopher, the late David Stove, who in recent years has gained a cult following among philosophy students in both Australia and the USA. Long out of print but now republished by Macleay Press, this book has a new foreword by Keith Windschuttle and a new Afterword by James Franklin.
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