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Those of your readers who are familiar with our procedures in Cambridge will know that discussions of the Regent House are not always well attended. In fact the meeting you reported last week (THES,...
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The truth is out there
It seems that in almost every academic discipline there are those who either deny the existence of a reality "out there" or say that if there is a reality it remains inaccessible to us. For those of...
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Electing for complexity
Richard Clogg's piece on election of professors (THES,January 23) falls into the fashionable trap of proposing constant procedural complexity to deal with a rather infrequent problem. I have been an...
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Radio leads the way in digital evolution
The other Friday I spent five and a half hours sitting in the chamber of the House of Commons listening to the debate on Teresa Gorman's Devolution for England bill. I will not go into detail as to...
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Equality, but not for poor
TWO independent reports in the past year have cast grave doubts on the fairness of the French higher education system. Such accusations strike at the very heart of the French constitution. Equality...
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Honorary degrees
University of Wales, Aberystwyth. LLD: Edward Heath, Conservative member of parliament for Old Bexley and Sidcup, former prime minister (1970-74), winner of the Sydney to Hobart Ocean Race (1969) and...
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Resemblance of things past
How the Mind Works
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Surreal life drama
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali
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Ancient Africa and the cargo jet cult
Trade Routes
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Little books on big thinkers
Turing - Socrates - Derrida - Berkeley - Descartes - Locke - Ayer - Wittgenstein - Russell - Hegel - Nietzsche - Marx
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Arguing over feely stuff
The Nature of Consciousness
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Minding mindlessness
The Mystery of Consciousness
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Appalling the pious
The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza
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Proust's style guru
Bergson
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The path of the Israelites
History of Jewish Philosophy