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issue nine fII winter 2000
contents
NEWS AND fEATUR.ES
6 NEWS HOUND Eugenics row, thinker of the millennium and a course closure
8 OPINiON Brian Leiter's regular column plus guest comment from Marilyn Mason
9 MEDiA WATCH A new look for our survey of philosophy and philosophers in the mass media
11 SHIFTING BELIEF Jeremy Stangroom Analysis of our survey into how philosophy shapes belief
ESSAYS
15 QUANTUM CONFUSiON Christopher Norris Should realists be worried about quantum mechanics?
18 THE SANTA WAGER Dennis Shawn Pruitt An argument to satisfy the doubting child
19 DOOMSDAY SOON? Nick Bostrum Have we under-estimated the chances that the end is nigh?
13 VELVET PHILOSOPHERS Julian Baggini The philosophers and the underground universities behind the Iron Curtain
Doomsday, p19
DISCUSSEON
23 OPEN DEBATE: THE MORAliTY OF DRUGS Paul MacDonald MacDonald replies to your objections to his article in TPM7
Quantum confusion, p15
28 DISCOURSE: THOUGHT AND THiNKER Michael Ignatieff and Ben Rogers discuss philosophy and biography