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News: November/December 2007

Philosophy Day Utopia • Krishna and Frede Dead • Half-Human/Half-Rabbit Embryos Given Green Light for Research — News reports by Sue Roberts

Paradise Found in Rochester, NY

UNESCO designated November 22 as 2007’s World Philosophy Day. Each November since 2003, the day has marked around the globe by locally-organised events celebrating philosophical discourse and the contribution it can make to human life. This year the headquarters of World Philosophy Day, (if a day can have a headquarters) is Istanbul. Various round tables and public lectures were arranged in that city, and also in a number of countries around the world. In Rochester, New York, an ambitious Philosophy Day event was organised at St John Fisher College, with a theme of ‘Philosophy and Utopias’.

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