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ISSN 1354-814X

Philosophers’ The

Magazine issue thirteen • winter 2001

contents

News and Features 6 NEWS HOUND Plagiarism on the internet

14 HAPPINESS Jeremy Stangroom The TPM 2000 survey on how philosophy affects you

8 OPINION Brian Leiter’s regular column plus guest comment from Nigel Warburton

9 MEDIA WATCH Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media, from the cat walk to catty talk

11 A KIND OF LIFE Ted Honderich Exclusive extracts from Honderich’s candid new autobiography

Self-censorship, p21

16 CHINA DIARIES Jeff Mason Letters from a trip of US academics to China Essays 19 FREUD MATTERS Emilia Steuerman Why psychoanalysis still matters to philosophy

Honderich p11

21 SELF-CENSORSHIP Carlo Felice How the intellectually free can blind themselves to reality Discussion 23 OPEN DEBATE: IMMORAL PHILOSOPHERS? Michael LaBossiere Objections and replies to a challenge to philosophers

ThePhilosophers’Magazine/Winter 2001 28 DISCOURSE: BECOMING A PHILOSOPHER Kierkegaard and more at the Forum for European Philosophy Conference Briefing 30 MADNESS, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY From Florence, Italy The Philosophers’ Review 56 New publications including

Madness in Florence, p30

A MEMOIR Mary Warnock Jeremy Stangroom

CLEAR AND QUEER THINKING Laurence Goldstein Claude Pehrson

THE NEW WITTGENSTEIN Eds. Crary and Read Jaroslav Peregrin

Primers Short articles on the basics

52 SNAPSHOTS HILARY PUTNAM Jack Ritchie RICHARD RORTY Simon Eassom contents

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COVER STORY: FORUM BIOETHICS AND SOCIETY A wide-ranging look at the variety of debates concerning the ethics of biotechnology. Full details on page 34

INTERVIEWS Janet Radcliffe Richards John Haris

ARTICLES Introduction Joseph Chandler Autonomy Susan Dwyer The Status of Zygotes Stephen Clark The Gene-for Confusion Lenny Moss J’accuse Peter Singer David Oderberg Brain Maping Christian Perring

54 EXPLAINING ETHICS Simon Eassom A new series introducing moral philosophy Regulars 10 MITCH’S DIARY Philosophy events from around the world

18 PHILOSOPHY@THE. INTERNET Mitch Hodge Bookmark this – the latest developments on the internet

27 SCI-PHI Mathew Iredale Has artificial intelligence escaped the Chinese room?

62 BERTRAND’S BREAK Pondweed, Stamp, Q&A plus the concise or cryptic crossword

64 LETTERS 66 THE SKEPTIC Wendy Grossman The lesson of mad cow disease

PLUS

67 SUBSCRIBE

65 TPM SHOP

Ethics primer, p54

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