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

11world congress what happened at the five-yearly jamboree, held in Istanbul in August

13word of mouse manners cost nothing, even in cyberspace...

15pop goes the thinker what happens when philosophy meets pop?

18out & about the pathway to distance learning thoughts 19Bernard Williams previously unpublished extracts from an interview with the recently deceased giant of philosophy

22sci-phiMathew Iredale’s regular science column asks if quantum consciousness is quackery

23going native H E Baber on learning from other cultures

25provocationsMichaelLaBossiere asks whether male students have grounds to complain against sexism issue 24 • 4th quarter 2003

contents forum 28Philip Pullman how fiction can bring big ideas and tricky ethics to younger readers

31guess the kid can you match the adult philosopher with the infant brat?

33for P4C Robert Fisher presents the case for philosophy for children (P4C)...

35the limits of P4C ...while Richard Fox expresses some doubts about what it can achieve

38Noah and science An extract from Stephen Law’s latest book for children

40serious play a thinking game for kids of all ages

42the old school Jeff Mason looks at Plato and Aristotle on education discussion 45open debate Robert Ellis responds to critics of his essay on creativity and academia

49John Gray Jonathan Derbyshire interviews the controversial philosopher about terrorism and Al Qaeda the lowdown 51the directory listings for UK and US philosophy organisations

52snapshotsthelowdown on Adorno and Benjamin

54explaining ethics the final part of Simon Eassom’s ethics primer

56conceptual carvery it’s all absolutely relative review 57The Collapse of the Fact-Value Dichotomy by Hilary Putnam

58life.after.theory eds. Payne and Schad

59The Measure of Things by David Cooper

60German Philosophy by Terry Pinkard

61Kierkegaard and Philosophy by Alastair Hannay last words 62Bertrand’s break fun and games

64lettershavingyour say

66the skeptic it’s the MacGuffin subscriptions page 14

The Philosophers' Magazine/4th quarter 2003