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Magazine issue fifteen • summer 2001
Editor Julian Baggini
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News and Features 6 NEWS HOUND The all-time top 50, Lord Sutherland and the death of Wesley Salmon
9 MEDIA WATCH Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media
COVER STORY: TV THINKERS
13 KIM YOUNG-OAK John Michael McGuire The lecturer topping the ratings in Korea Essays 15 UNBREAKABLE Salam Hawa Hegel goes to Hollywood in the Bruce Willis movie
11 ALAIN DE BOTTON Steve Deery Cheering yourself up with Nietzsche
Good riddance? p23
17 SURVIVING DEATH Anthony Campbell Why philosophers have not always been so dismissive.
19 HUME ON ETHICS James Baillie Getting the great Scot right on morality Discussion 23 OPEN DEBATE: EXTINCTION Michael LaBossiere The case for letting species die and your chance to bite back
26 DISCOURSE Joseph Chandler Debating paternalism and philosophers in public life
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ThePhilosophers’Magazine/Summer 2001
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