onference Briefing 31 ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Jeff Mason Learning from the Greeks in Arizona

Primers Short articles on the basics

52 SNAPSHOTS PYTHAGORAS Scott O’Reilly FRANK RAMSEY Peter Cave 54 EXPLAINING ETHICS Simon Eassom Part seven of the series introducing moral philosophy looks at happiness The Philosophers’ Review 56 New books

A SHORT TREATISE ON THE GREAT VIRTUES by André Comte-Sponville John Cottingham

BEGINNER’S GUIDES Various authors Jonathan Derbyshire

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Where Art Thou? Joseph Chandler Interview: Roger Scruton Jeremy Stangroom Art and Allusion Nigel Warburton Who’s The Greatest? Julian Baggini On Borders Michael Proudfoot Wilde and Free Julia Wood The Beautiful Society Francis Akpata

DESIGNER FOOD by Gregory E Pence Ruth Chadwick

PAINISM by Richard Ryder Simon Eassom

INVARIANCE by Robert Nozick Aaron Lambert Regulars 30 PHILOSOPHY@THE INTERNET Jeremy Stangroom In cyberspace, no-one can hear you laugh

22 SCI-PHI Mathew Iredale The importance of paying paying attention

29 OUT & ABOUT Tim LeBon Conceptual analysis for addicts

28 THE DIRECTORY The essential listings

61 BIBLIOPHILE Philosophy of language for your home library

62 BERTRAND’S BREAK Pondweed, Stamp, quizes, rocks, plus the crossword

64 LETTERS Corrections, comments, praise and protestations

66 THE SKEPTIC Wendy Grossman Feeling great when health nuts die

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