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Derrida’s Degree • Myths and Truths • Debate Warms Up • Threats to Democracy • Evolution and God • Keeping Art Alive • Why Mistakes Matter • Islamic Philosophers & Theologians • DNA, Explanation & the God Gambit • The ‘Ism’


Derrida’s Degree


DEAR EDITOR: I must correct a factual error in the News section of the latest Philosophy Now. It is not true that Jacques Derrida was refused an honorary degree by Cambridge University. The sequence of events was as follows:


Derrida was nominated for the degree at the instigation of the English Faculty, not the Philosophy Faculty. (It is interesting that his recent honorary degree from Queen Mary College, London, was also in literature.) At the University meeting to ratify this nomination, D.


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