tpm t h e p h i l o s o p h e r s ’ m a g a z i n e Issue 50 • 3rd quarter 2010

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ACTIONS & EVENTS

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From the editor News From closure to revelation

Mediawatch Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media

Threads Ophelia Benson’s regular look at the blogs

SPECIAL FEATURE – IDEAS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

1: Conscious machines Igor Aleksander 2: Public reason Catherine Audard 3: Social networking Gary Banham 4: Metametaphysics Helen Beebee 5: Global justice Chris Bertram 6: The simulation argument Nick Bostrom 7: Film as philosophy Havi Car el and Gr eg Tuck 8: The cultural landscape David Cooper 9: Meaning and value John Cottingham

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10: Passive nihilism Simon Critchley 11: Developmental systems theory John Dupré 12: Semicompatibilism John Martin Fischer 13: Philosophy of information Luciano Floridi 14: Non-critical thinking Nick Fotion 15: Protscience Steve Fuller 16: Scepticism Frank Furedi 17: Climate change James Garvey 18: The-end-of-communism event Simon Glendinning 19: Neurophilosophy A. C. Grayling 20: Meaning grows Susan Haack 21: Speculative realism Iain Hamilton Grant 22: The religious stance Alastair Hannay 23: Human enhancement John Harris 24: Neither compatibilism nor incompatibilism Ted Honderich 25: On What Matters Brad Hooker 26: Indir ect r ecipr ocity Mat Ir edale 27: Disagreement Jean Kazez 28: Experimental philosophy Joshua Knobe 29: The turn to the body Car olyn Korsmeyer 30. Contextualism Ernie Lepore 31: “September 11” as “Event” Genevieve Lloyd