Issue • th quarter

Contents

ACTIONS & EVENTS

FORUM

4 From the editor 5 NewsNewprotest, New College

8 Obituaries 10 MediawatchPhilosophyandphilosophers in the mass media

12 ThreadsWorking-class heroes

14 Feature: Fighting closure Nina Power examines the strategies

17 Word of Mouse Waging cyberwar

61 An open future Alfred Mele on chance and choice

66 The problem of lucky guesses Duncan Pritchard has a solution

72 Luck and happiness John Sellars takes the stoics’ tough line

77 Luck of the draw Nafsika Athanassoulis on morality and jammed guns

82 You don’t believe in luck Darren Domsky explains why

87 Suffering misfortune Alexander Brown on social justice

THOUGHTS

19 The Interview Kit Fine’s cure for vagueness

28 Sci-PhiNicerobots finish first

31 TPM Essay Raymond Tallis on the brain

43 Illness or moral failing? Rachel Cooper on disorders

48 Letter from … Joe Friggieri in Malta

52 Pyke’s portraits Cynthia Freeland considers the faces of philosophers

THE LOWDOWN

93 Pop culture Is Superman un-American?

97 Snapshot: Thomas Reid James A Harris perceives things tpm 4TH QUARTER 2011