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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Literal truth
The examiners' hoary dilemma about whether to mark down students who litter their papers with literals could prove especially difficult in one new degree course. De Montfort University, Lincoln is...
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Sold too cheap
Hard sell of the week came from the economist who despatched his latest publication to The THES accompanied by a letter opening: "I hope you will be interested in this working pap". Too modest by...
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Queen's Birthday honours
KCMG/DCMG Joseph Rotblat, professor, for services to international understanding. Knights Bachelor Philip Cohen, director, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Royal Society research professor at the...
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Medics consider a flying fraud squad
Crackdown on clinical cheats GEORGE Alberti (pictured right) is the man entrusted by the General Medical Council to devise a scheme for sorting out clinical research fraud and misconduct. He said he...
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A rush for upward mobility
Colleges and institutes are lining up to become university colleges. Tony Tysome reports Higher education's most wannabe sector breathed a sigh of relief last week as the government gave its members...
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Fact file
Findings from the Higher Education Statistics Agency for 1996-97 reveal that: The average age of full-time academic staff is 41 Twenty-two per cent of staff are 35 or younger. Two professors are 30...
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Big revenue rise for BTG
New revenue generated by technology-transfer firm BTG since its flotation rose during the year to March 31 by 75 per cent to Pounds 10.5 million. The firm signed 36 new licences and expanded...
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Catholic university meets its saviour
A PRIVATE university in Spain may be saved from the threat of closure by a last-minute agreement with new financial backers. The Catholic University of Avila, whose foundation provoked protests from...
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Congress chaos riles historians
THE WORLD of economic historians is racked with uncertainty over the fate of the 12th International Economic History Association congress, due to be held in Seville at the end of August. The...
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Irish lecturers in polls
ACADEMICS feature prominently in the list of candidates for election to the Northern Ireland assembly next week. Best-known is Ulster Unionist Dermot Nesbitt, a Queen's University lecturer, who had...
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Queen hails healthy sector
MEDICAL academics feature strongly in a Queen's Birthday Honours list influenced by the 50th anniversary of the National Health Service. Of the 29 knighthoods awarded, seven went to academics. Of...
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Come what May
The newly reformed Council for Science and Technology held its opening meeting last week away from the Office of Science and Technology in the splendours of the Cabinet Office - the OST's old home. A...