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reporter 4news hound news, plus straw poll and mediawatch

12fertile blogs? Ophelia Benson examines the rise of the philosophy blogger

15Dublin tour the thinking person’s guide to the Irish capital

18word of mouse Luciano Floridi on the arrival of Vista

thoughts 19on reasons Jonathan Dancy pens The TPM Essay

25sci-phi are robots starting to wake up?

27Xenophon why Socrates’s chronicler is more than just a historian

30provocations the evolution of right and wrong

31troth and truth in trust we reason, argues Edmond Wright

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forum 36Anthony Kenny our forum interviewee, on doubt and certainty

42imperial folly Stuart Sim on the empires of belief

46being agnostic another ex-priest resists atheism

50on probability why certainty does not belong in the God wars

54West is best? why the occident has lost its nerve

58clarity in 2D the virtue of gross over-simplifi cation

discussion 62my philosophy Argentine novelist Guillermo Martínez

67open debate Stephen Law on the war for children’s minds

the lowdown 79conceptual carvery how to make your arguments valid and sound

80snapshot the lowdown on Hannah Arendt

82the directory listings for UK and North America

83pop culture South Park kicks off our new series – sweet!

review 86new books Ronald Dworkin, Jonathan Glover, Richard Sorabji and more

last words 92Bertrand’s break crossword, cartoon, puzzle and nonsense

94letters irritability factor: severe gale to stormy

75talking politics top philosophers answer key questions

96the skeptic saving children from claptrap

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The Philosophers' Magazine /1st quarter 2007