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ACTIONS & EVENTS

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From the editor News No jobs, no free will, no God...

Mediawatch Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media

Threads Between elitism and dumbing down

Templeton's riches Do deep pockets disrupt deep thought?

Word of Mouse The beginning of the end of books?

THOUGHTS

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The Interview Jerry Fodor takes on Darwin and friends

Sci-Phi Remembering Claude Lévi-Strauss

The TPM Essay Thomas I. White speaks up for dolphins

Letter from… Ian Carter in Italy

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Why pop adds fizz William Irwin defends a derided genre

FORUM

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Step aside, Freud The gentle rise of philosophical counselling

You know, for kids The making of little philosophers

We mean business Musing on the mercantile

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John Armstrong The business school philosopher

Can you manage? Philosophy for bosses

Stealing from Stoics Is old advice still fresh?

The everyday Quotidian thinking

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THE LOWDOWN

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Pop culture Are Mad Men mad?

Snapshot: Dilthey Father of phenomenology

REVIEW

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New books Reviews of new comics, novels and more

Author Q&A Gregory Currie narrates

Imagine that The excesses of Avatar

Review of reviews What the critics said

LAST WORD

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My philosophy Exposer of bad science, Ben Goldacre

The Skeptic Loving angles instead

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Nina Power

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Editorial Advisory Board Miranda Fricker, Simon Glendinning, Susan James, David Papineau, Nina Power, Anthony Price, Jonathan Rée, Richard Schoch, Barry C Smith, Jonathan Wolff

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Paul Cooper

Layout

John Perkins

Illustrations/Graphics Felix Bennett (cover), Pipo di Bressana,

Gareth Southwell.

Contributors Laura Biron, Krister Bykvist, Ian Carter, Gary Cox, Mark Dibben, Luciano Floridi, James Garvey, Paul Griseri, Wendy Grossman, Marc A. Hight, Mathew Iredale, William Irwin, Ward Jones, Jean Kazez, Nigel Laurie, Brooke Lewis, Antonia Macaro, Nicholas Smith, Robert Rowland Smith, Frits Schipper, Landon Schurtz, Dominic Scott, Barry C. Smith, Mark Vernon, Emrys Westacott, Thomas I. White.

Contributors’ Notes Contact the editor to submit proposals. Please do not send unsolicited manuscripts.

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