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The 1993 Joint Session

Some personal impressions by Our Special Correspondent.

The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association is Britain’s only big, allpurpose annual philosophy conference. Each July it is held at a different university and this year was Birmingham’s turn. The conference opened on the Friday afternoon with an inaugural address by Professor Leon Pompa. Five minutes before his talk was due to begin, I was still hopelessly lost in the Birmingham suburbs, piloting my car in ever-decreasing circles through a baffling network of leafy winding avenues and wondering whether just to give up, when I suddenly realised that the tower block I was passing for the third time was in fact the place I was looking for. I charged into the building past various registration desks to discover that things were running late, so I was able after all to hear Professor Pompa expounding on the Possibility of Historical Knowledge.

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