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The will to logic?
Nietzsche's Metaphysics
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Towering inference
Kinds of Minds
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Awards
BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY The Cognitive Psychology Award 1996 was presented to Koen Lamberts of the University of Birmingham for his research on how individuals categorise objects under time...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Duncan Maskell, microbiologist at Imperial College, London, has been appointed to the Marks & Spencer professorships of farm animal health, food science and food...
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Grants
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY European funds Dr N. Paul, Pounds 176,047 from the European Commission (effects of UV-B on sensitive European ecosystems); Professor B. Wynne and Dr S. Shackley, Pounds 152,000...
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Honorary degrees
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES David Dilks, vice chancellor of the University of Hull, has been awarded an honorary degree by the academy in recognition of his work on the history of 19th and 20th...
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Swift response to the uncertainty principle
Consortia are coalescing around new distribution channels that threaten old ways of delivering information. Consortia are very much a la mode in North American librarianship. Developments in...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a bishop with no faith in reality: "For after all, what deserves the first place in our studies, is the consideration of God, and our duty; which to promote, as it...
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Emotions trapped
The Wellcome Trust has split Pounds 800,000 for research into neurological disorders between five institutions, including the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford,...
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Queen's banned IRA victim
The spectre of terrorism has returned to haunt Queen's University, Belfast, in spite of the precarious peace that still persists in the province. Two weeks ago Sean Devlin was shot dead in front of a...
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Pulped days, blurred nights
Booze, buddies, boogie and boredom. Chris Johnston samples the ups and downs of freshers' week. University administrators may think freshers' week is for helping new students settle into unfamiliar...
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Universities 'must learn to network'
Universities must learn from multinational companies and create new types of networks both inside and outside the academic world, according to Hans van Ginkel, vice president of the Conference of...
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Cutting off research's oxygen supply
Of the various proposals that are being floated before the Dearing committee the one to concentrate research funds on a small number of "elite" or premier league universities is the most wrong-headed...
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Just old codswallop
Eric Laithwaite's review of my book, The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science (THES, June 21), makes little attempt to discharge the first duty of a reviewer, namely to give readers some...