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Magazine issue fourteen • spring 2001
Editor Julian Baggini
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© 2001, The Philosphers’ Magazine contents
News and Features 6 NEWS HOUND The deaths of Quine and Anscombe, plus Welsh wrangles and a dot com crash in the philosophy world
9 MEDIA WATCH Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media – especially Roger Scruton
11 NEW MEDIA Stephen Darwall and J David Velleman A new challenge to traditional academic publishing
13 REFLECTIONS ON CHINA Jeff Mason East meets West on a revealing exchange Essays 15 AUTISTIC SPINOZA? Michael Fitzgerald Did the great Dutchman suffer from Asperger’s Syndrome?
17 EUROPE Simon Critchley A continent of bastards?
Ecofeminism, p19
19 ECOFEMINISM Karen J Warren How the environment is a feminist issue Discussion 23 OPEN DEBATE: WICKEDNESS Mary Midgley Your chance to debate with a leading philosopher Special feature 26 RUSSELL’S LETTERS An exclusive preview of a new volume of Russell’s letters
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