tpm the philosophers’ magazine Issue 49 • 2nd quarter 2010

Contents …

ACTIONS & EVENTS

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From the editor News No jobs, no free will, no God...

Mediawatch Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media

Threads Between elitism and dumbing down

Templeton's riches Do deep pockets disrupt deep thought?

Word of Mouse The beginning of the end of books?

THOUGHTS

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The Interview Jerry Fodor takes on Darwin and friends

Sci-Phi Remembering Claude Lévi-Strauss

The TPM Essay Thomas I. White speaks up for dolphins

Letter from… Ian Carter in Italy

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Why pop adds fizz William Irwin defends a derided genre

FORUM

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Step aside, Freud The gentle rise of philosophical counselling

You know, for kids The making of little philosophers

We mean business Musing on the mercantile

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John Armstrong The business school philosopher

Can you manage? Philosophy for bosses

Stealing from Stoics Is old advice still fresh?

The everyday Quotidian thinking

■ tpm 2ND QUARTER 2010