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Issue 16 Autumn 2001
Contents
News and Reports
6 News Hound
Academics and religious schools under fire; Oak felled and more
9 MediaWatch
Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media, and after last month's absence, Roger Scruton is back!
Features
11 Top of the Forms
Joseph Chandler
The top ten philosophy classics revealed
13 The History Man
Julian Baggini
An interview with journalist turned historian of philosophy, Anthony Gottlieb
Essays
15 Philosophy Matters
Roger Trigg
Why a scientistic society needs metaphysics
18 The Infosphere
Luciano Floridi
Do we need a new information ethics to bridge the digital divide?
20 In Praise of Putnam
Christopher Norris
What we can learn from the open-minded nature of Putnam's progress
Discussion
23 Open Debate: Wickedness
Mary Midgley
Midgley responds to three objections to her essay sent in by TPM readers
27 Discourse: Russell's Politics
Jonathan Derbyshire
Nicholas Griffin and Alan Ryan debate Russell's controversial political years
29 Interview: Tim Scanlon
Alex Voorhoeve
Scanlon explains why his moral philosophy is "Kant on the cheap"
Conference Briefing
31 Philosophy and Technology
Christian Perring and William Wilcox
Dispatches from an international gathering in Aberdeen
Primers
52 Snapshots
Plato
Roy A Jackson
Alasdair MacIntyre
Matthew Ray
54 Explaining Ethics
Simon Eassom
Part four of the series introducing moral philosophy
Existentialism
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More than just words
Introduction
Jonathan Webber
Articles
What is existentialism?
David Cooper
Problems of the unconscious
David Snelling
Simone de Beauvoir
Ursula Tidd
Post-colonialism
Azzedine Haddour
Too Serious Sartre?
Jonathan Webber
The Ethics of Aesthetics
Christina Howells
The Philosophers' Review
56-60 We take a look at new publications
Regulars
10 Mitch's Diary & Directory
Mitch Hodge
Now with organisational as well as events listings
22 Out and About
Tim Le Bon
Philosophy beyond academia
51 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 philosophy@the.internet
65 From Our Own Correspondence
66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman
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