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issue eleven @ summer 2000

contents

NEWS AND FEATURES ESSAYS

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BERLIN'S BIG IDEA

Stories you may have missed, Henry Hardy including Alain de Botton, a new The great insight the late Isaiah think tank and a hundred years Berlin deserves to be of Radical Philosophy remembered for

8 OPINION Brian Leiter's regular column plus guest comment from Antony Duff

9 MEDIA WATCH Philosophy and philosophers in the mass media, including (/)(/)ro Seinfeld and rude jokes (!j

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MAKING THE MIND Anthony Campbell Is consciousness as we know it a recent development?

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The great poet's debt to

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A GREEN NIETZSCHE?

Daniel Mittler

How environmentalists are claiming Nietzsche as their own

DISCUSSION

23 OPEN DEBATE: iMMORAL

PHilOSOPHERS?

MichaellaBossiere

Your chance to answer the charge that philosophers are an immoral bunch