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magazine reporter 6news hound an extended round-up from the world of philosophy, including straw poll and mediawatch

13word of mouse are virtual friendships the real McCoy?

15Donald Davidson the late great Davidson talks about his early influences and passions

17out & about philosophers can be superstars ... in Finland thoughts 18psychoanalyse this Louise Braddock asks if philosophy should get on the couch with psychoanalysis

20sci-phiSchrödinger’s cat may become more than just a thought experiment

21sporting significance Keith Thompson argues that winning isn’t everything. Well, he’s British...

23provocationsifIwanttorepaint a work of art I have bought, why shouldn’t I?

24Strauss’s disciples Shadia Drury imagines the road to the right-wing think-tank issue 25 • 1st quarter 2004

contents forum 28Bhikhu Parekh talks about pluralism, dialogue and cherishing difference

31teaching citizenship Bernard Crick on why and how schools can help make good citizens

33being British Claire Fox on why immigrants are scapegoats for our crisis of identity

35Slavoj Žižek the Slovenian gadfly takes some bites at liberal multiculturalism

38the neutrality myth Barry Gardiner MP on why Rawls’s liberalism is an inadequate response to plurality

40inside out Maleiha Malik on the failure of liberal institutions to accommodate faith

42the identity trap Piers Benn on the dangers of communitarian group-think discussion 45open debate E R Klein wants to know what’s so wrong with students sleeping with lecturers

48Colin Wilson John Shand talks to the philosophical outsider the lowdown 50conceptual carvery helping you through thick and thin

51the directory listings for UK and US philosophy organisations

52snapshotsthelowdown on Jerry Fodor and Alan Turing

54Kant’s Critique how one translation became a classic review 56Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett

57One World by Peter Singer

58The Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley

59What Genes Can’t Do by Lenny Moss

60Brain-WisebyPatricia Churchland

61Strangers, Gods and Monsters by Richard Kearney last words 62Bertrand’s break fun and games

64lettershavingyour say

66the skeptic laughs allowed subscriptions page 14

The Philosophers' Magazine/1st quarter 2004