Issue 13 Winter 2001

Contents

News and Reports

6 News Hound
Plagiarism on the internet

8 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus guest commentator, Nigel Warburton

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

Features

11 A Kind of Life
Ted Honderich
Exclusive extracts from Honderich's candid new autobiography

14 Happiness
Jeremy Stangroom
The TPM 200 survey on how philosophy affects you

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

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

28 Discourse: Becoming a philosopher
Kierkegaard and more at the Forum for European Philosophy

Conference Briefing

30 Madness, Science and Society
From Florence, Italy

Primers

52 Snapshots
Hilary Putnam
Jack Ritchie
Richard Rorty
Simon Eassom

54 Explaining Ethics
Simon Eassom
A new series introducing moral philosophy

Bioethics and society

34

A wide-ranging look at the variety of debates concerning the ethics of biotechnology.

Introduction
Joseph Chandler

Interviews
Janet Radcliffe Richards; John Harris

Articles
Autonomy
Susan Dwyer

The Status of Zygotes
Stephen Clark

The Gene-For Confusion
Lenny Moss

J'Accuse Peter Singer
David Oderberg

Brain Mapping
Christian Perring

The Philosophers' Review

54-58 We take a look at new publications

Regulars

10 Mitch's Diary
Mitch Hodge
Philosophy events from around the world

18 philosophy@the.internet

27 Sci-Phi

61 Bibliophile
Lyn May and Steve Deery on building a home philosophy library

62 Bertrand's Break
Pondweed; Stamp; Q&A; crossword

64 From Our Own Correspondence

66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman