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issue eleven @ summer 2000

contents

NEWS AND FEATURES ESSAYS

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BERLIN'S BIG IDEA

Stories you may have missed, Henry Hardy including Alain de Botton, a new The great insight the late Isaiah think tank and a hundred years Berlin deserves to be of Radical Philosophy remembered for

8 OPINION Brian Leiter's regular column plus guest comment from Antony Duff

9 MEDIA WATCH Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media, including (/)(/)ro Seinfeld and rude jokes (!j

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MAKING THE MIND Anthony Campbell Is consciousness as we know it a recent development?

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The great poet's debt to

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A GREEN NIETZSCHE?

Daniel Mittler

How environmentalists are claiming Nietzsche as their own

DISCUSSION

23 OPEN DEBATE: iMMORAL

PHilOSOPHERS?

MichaellaBossiere

Your chance to answer the charge that philosophers are an immoral bunch 27 DISCOURSE: THE INTERNET Brian Winston and Gordon Graham debate the meaning of cyberspace

CONFERENCE BRIEFING

29 TRUTH AND MEANING From Moscow, Idaho

THE Ptm..OSOPHERS' ReVIEW

54 An expanded selection of reading for the summer including

FIFTY EASTERN THINKERS Collinson, Plant and Wilkinson Salam Hawa

FEMiNISM IN PHILOSOPHY Ed. Fricker and Hornsby l isa Kemmerer

SP!NOZA Steven Nadler Paul MacDonald

THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY Alain de Botton Alex Klaushofer

ENGAGING REASON Joseph Raz Lyn May contents 15

PRIMERS Short articles on the basics

32 SNAPSHOTS DESCARTES Jonathan Walmsley CHARLES TAYLOR Deane Baker

REGULARS

10 MiTCH'S DIARY Mitch Hodge Philosophy events from around the world

26 THE CLINIC Tim lebon Philosophical counselling

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

64 LETTERS 66 THE SKEPTIC Wendy Grossman What do memes mean?

21 PHiLOSOPHY@THEINTERNET Jeremy Stangroom Bookmark this - the latest developments on the internet

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Mathew Iredale Has science shown animals to be moral beings?

The Philosophers' Magazine/Summer 2000