Taking on the titans
Underlying the trust-busting suit against Microsoft is the notion that the high-tech sector is a market different from all others and requires new regulations. Kam Patel reports on the academics...
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The right to remains? Silence
Few UK museums are frank about the human remains they possess. Cressida Fforde thinks they are stonewalling to prevent native peoples reclaiming the bones of their ancestors As a PhD student...
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Strain spotting
Surveys paint a bleak picture of stressed academics, baggy-eyed from long hours and mountains of paperwork. The latest shows that 40 per cent of academics put in more than 48 hours a week. Kate...
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Score draw
When things hit a low note at De Montfort University for head of music Gavin Bryars he chucked it all in to do what he loves most, with great success Swoosh over the hump-backed bridge, accelerate,...
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The great divide
LA DISPUTE. Une introduction a la philosophie analytique. By Pascal Engel. 252pp. Paris: Minuit. 125fr. - 2 7073 1610 5. ANALITICI E CONTINENTALI. Guida alla filosofia degli ultimi trent'anni. By...
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"La sera dei miracoli, luglio, agosto, il vulcano"
(Photograph) - "La sera dei miracoli, luglio, agosto, il vulcano", 1995, by Mimmo Paladino; from The Art of Being You by Gianni Versace (New York:Abbeville; distributed in the UK by John Murray....
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Among this week's contributors
John Burnett is Professor of Social History at Brunel University. His books include Idle Hands: The experience of unemployment, 1790-1990, 1994. Lesley Chamberlain's most recent book is In a Place...
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The seductions of reason
ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY. Edward Craig, editor. 8,136pp. Routledge. Pounds 1,695 (Pounds 1,995 with CD-ROM). - 0 415 07310 3. Encyclopaedia" is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as...
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Luck swallows everything
Can our sense of free will be true? Are we free agents? Can we be morally responsible for what we do? Philosophers distinguish these questions and have all the answers. Some say yes and yes (we are...
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For and against Descartes
SIMPLE MINDEDNESS. In defense of naive naturalism in the philosophy of mind. By Jennifer Hornsby. 265pp. Harvard University Press. Pounds 23.50. - 0 674 80818 5. These days there is so much agreement...
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Mere specks of dust?
RELATIVISM, SUFFERING AND BEYOND. Essays in memory of Bimal K. Matilal. P. Bilimoria and J. N. Mohanty, editors. 381pp. Oxford University Press. Pounds 19.99. - 0 19 563858 1. COMPANION ENCYCLOPEDIA...
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Lessons in Mentalese
CONCEPTS. Where cognitive science went wrong. By Jerry A. Fodor. 174pp. Oxford University Press. Pounds 30 (paperback, Pounds 12.99). - 0 19 823637 9. Fodor's theory of mind and its problems With no...
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"The Cocktail Party"
(Photograph) - "The Cocktail Party", 1992, by Sandy Skoglund; from her book of photographs Reality Under Siege: A retrospective (119pp. Abrams. Pounds 25. - 0 8109 4185 6)
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Deceiving into truth
CHRISTIAN DISCOURSES. The crisis and a crisis in the life of an actress. by Soren Kierkegaard. 489pp. Pounds 39.50. - 0 691 01649 6. WITHOUT AUTHORITY. by Soren Kierkegaard. 317pp. Pounds 35. 0 691...
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The meaning of 'genocide'
Sir, - I am grateful to Roger W. Smith (Letters, June 12) for reminding me that one cannot argue with Humpty-Dumpty. Let him continue to maintain his - surely rather odd - distinction between total...