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PRIMERS Short articles that set out the basics.

28 SARTRE'SEXISTENTIAL HUMANISM Jeff Mason A two-part look at the ideas behind Existentialism and Humanism, Sartre's popular but sketchy lecture.

30 SNAPSHOTS NIETZSCHE Christopher Budd DANIEL DENNETT Guy Douglas and Stewart Saunders

32 THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT Roy A. Jackson The series on classic problems in the philosophy of religion continues.

50 AN INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC Francis Moorcroft The second of a two-part series picks up the story at Frege.

THE Ptm..OSOPHERS' REVIEW

52 New publications reviewed

THE ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA ON CD ROM Ed. Edward Craig Margaret Goord THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS Series Eds. Raphael and Monk Zhou Li-Yang THE POSTMODERN GOD Ed. Graham Ward Simon Walter PHILOSOPHY AND THE GOOD LIFE John Cottingham Julian Baggini SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: A CRITICAL READER Ed. Elizabeth Fallaize Ion Georgiou

58 EXTRACT PHILOSOPHY AND THE GOOD LIFE John Cottingham

REGUl.ARS

59 SCI-PHI Matthew Iredale

A new regular column on the hard science that provokes hard thought.

60 DARRYL'SDIARY Darryl Staflund A selection of philosophy events from Darryl's worldwide internet database.

61 PHlLOSOPHY@THEJNIERNEf Jeremy Stangroom Metaphysics in the techno sphere. This issue: Is web self-publishing no more than a crank's charter?

62 Q&A The philosophy of horticulture revealed.

63 PARADOXES Francis Moorcroft Comfort for the bald from the Sorites' Paradox.

64 FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE Your letters.

66 THE SKEPTIC Wendy Grossman The founder of The Skeptic magazine'sregular column.

The Philosophers ' Magazine/Autumn 1998