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Issue 9 Winter 2000
Contents
News and Reports
6 News Hound
Eugenics row; thinker of the millennium; a course closure; and more.
8 Opinion
Brian Leiter's regular column, plus guest commentator, Marilyn Mason.
9 MediaWatch
A new look for our review of philosophy as seen by the media.
Features
11 Shifting Belief
Jeremy Stangroom
Analysis of our survey into how philosophy shapes belief.
13 Velvet Philosophers
Julian Baggini
The philosophers and the underground universities behind the Iron Curtain.
Essays
15 Quantum Confusion
Christopher Norris
Should realists be worried about quantum mechanics?
18 The Santa Wager
Dennis Shawn Pruitt
An argument to satisfy the doubting child.
19 Doomsday Soon?
Nick Bostrum
Have we underestimated the chances that the end is nigh?
Discussion
23 Open Debate: The Morality of Drug Use
Paul MacDonald
MacDonald replies to your objections to his article in TPM7.
28 Discourse: Thought and Thinker
Michael Ignatieff and Ben Rogers discuss philosophy and biography.
Conference Briefing
30 The Problem of Evil
Christian Perring
Susan Dwyer
Philosophers and psychiatrists get together to discuss if evil is a case of madness or pure moral badness
Primers
58 Snapshots
Henry Sidgwick
Bart Schultz
Thomas Paine
Robin Harwood
60 Ethics Masterclass
Peter Singer discusses the classic objections to utilitarianism
The Thinking Voter
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A variety of approaches to exploring the major political ideologies of our time.
Introduction
Joseph Chandler
Roundtable
Ted Honderich, Jan Lester, Tony McWalter, Dennis O'Keefe and Kate Soper
Interview
Stuart Hampshire
Julian Baggini
Debate: Libertarianism
David Conway and Alan Haworth
Extract: An Intelligent Person's Guide To Liberalism
Conrad Russell
The Philosophers' Review
51-56 We take a look at new publications
Regulars
27 The Clinic
Philosophical councelling in action
22 Sci-Phi
62 Q&A
57 Darryl's Diary (Events)
Darryl Staflund
21 Philosophy@The.Internet
63 Bertrand's Break
64 From Our Own Correspondence
66 The Skeptic
Wendy Grossman
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