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ACTIONS & EVENTS

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From the editor News From Hacking to Hobbs

Mediawatch Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media

Threads Blogs debate absent women

Camelot to Bayreuth Wagner contra Nietzsche, redux

Word of mouse The future of e-health

THOUGHTS

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The Interview Michael Sandel demands tough justice

The TPM Essay Jonathan Rée on the fetishism of morality

Back to Baroque France's forgotten philosophy

Sci-Phi God on the brain

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In the blood? How genes have changed identity

FORUM

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Daniel Dennett Interview with the reluctant horseman

Divine intervention Melissa Lane on teaching religion

Firing blanks Ronald Aronson on missing the point

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Disbelieve it Russell Blackford stands up for atheism

Zizek the theologian Carl Packman gets perverse

THE LOWDOWN

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Pop culture Alice in one day land

Snapshot: Erasmus The great humanist

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REVIEW

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New books Reviews of new books on wine, willing and so on…

Author Q&A How to be an existentialist

Imagine that Raw beauty

Review of reviews What the critics said

LAST WORD

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My philosophy Polymath Ziauddin Sardar

The Skeptic Libel to err

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Contributors Ronald Aronson, Russell Blackford, Joseph Chandler, James Connelly, Ophelia Deroy, Luciano Floridi, Luc Foisneau, Wendy Grossman, Owen Hatherley, Mathew Iredale, Jean Kazez, Melissa Lane, Brooke Lewis, Ben Noys, Carl Packman, A.W. Price, Jonathan Rée, Steve Sturdy, Alberto Toscano, Alex Voorhoeve, Mark D. White.

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