Issue 33 1st quarter 2006

Contents

Reporter

4 News Hound
News, plus straw poll and mediawatch.

12 Best's Defence
Why the UK has banned a US philosopher.

17 Word of Mouse
Luciano Floridi takes over the keyboard.

18 Wild Again
Should the wild be "restored".

21 Omnivore
Scott McLemee's sublime column

23 Questions R Us
A new way to ask a philosopher.

Thoughts

26 Landscape Love
Eve Garrard pens The TPM Essay.

31 Sci-Phi
Why chimps make rubbish friends.

33 Preferentism
H. E. Baber explains why we should get what we prefer.

37 Provocations
Mixing males and females can be bad.

38 Neocon Nozick?
Was the late Harvard great the brain behind Reaganomics?

Forum - Social Justice

46 Disneymind
Thinking deeply with Mickey Mouse.

48 Brown Source
A lack of meat in The Da Vinci Code.

50 Ex-rated
From the risqué to the routine, what adult films tell us.

55 Nietzsche Doll
The weird world of Action Philosophers.

68 A Load of Balls?
The philosophy of mini-golf revealed.

Discussion

63 Zen Master
Robert Pirsig talks only to TPM - and probably regrets it.

69 My Philosophy
TV head honcho Dan Chambers.

73 Open Debate
Simon Clarke replies to your objections to affirmative action.

The Lowdown

79 The Directory
Listings of UK and US philosophy organisations.

78 Conceptual Carvery
Distinguishing the necessary and contingent.

80 Snapshot
The lowdown on T E Hulme.

82 Theory of Knowledge
The eigth in the series remembers and introspects.

Review

85 New books: Williams, Midgley, Badiou and others publish tomes worth reading.

Last Words

92 Bertrand's Break
Cartoons, quizes and the crossword.

94 Letters
You opinionate lot, you.

96 The Skeptic
Science is great - what a shame some scientists are not.