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News

News: October/November 2004

Derrida Dead • ‘Innate Grammar’ Shock • World Philosophy Day • Life in the Balance — News reports by Sue Roberts in London and Lisa Sangoi in New York

STOPPRESS - Jacques Derrida

As we were going to press, the sad news broke that Jacques Derrida has died of pancreatic cancer in Paris at the age of 74. The controversial, snowy-haired deconstructionist was one of the world’s best-known thinkers, and we will be publishing a full obituary in our next issue.

UNESCO Philosophy Day

UNESCO will be holding its third International Philosophy Day on November 18th. Public philosophy events will be held in more than two dozen countries around the world.

Visitors’ Book

The British Philosophical Association has recently started keeping a list of philosophers who are visiting the UK from elsewehere.

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