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Issue 44 • 1st quarter 2009

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Ne ws Obama is analysed and a Stoic is dug up

Me d i a wa t c h Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media

Wo r d o f Mo u s e Computers don’t fool Luciano Floridi

Ho b b e s f e s t ‘ 0 8 Malmesbury wakes up to Leviathan

T h re a d s Ophelia Benson’s regular look at the blogs

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S c i - P h i Mat Iredale bisects brains

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Po d i o p h o b i a The audacity of speech

L i t e ra r y l i n e s Ignoring language’s richest mines

E d i t o r s ’ c h o i c e The books we missed

L o c a t i on , l o c a t i on In search of space

Ra d i c a l Ka n t Misreading the Critique

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T h e I n t e r v i e w Luce Irigaray shares her world

T h e T P M E s s a y David Cooper digs for art and beauty

T h e o r y o u t How Wittgenstein ditched dogmatism

L e t t e r f ro m… Varol Akman in Turkey

P h y s i c s g o n e ma d ? What scientists make of multiverses

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Wh a t a l i f e Collingwood’s autobiography

Pe t t y mi n d s Lovers of wisdom or status?

Tr i a n g u l a r l o g i c Three sides to every story

Re a d e r s ’ p i c k s Your secrets

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