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...book overflowing with colorful anecdotes and thought experiments. He doesn’t pretend to know all the answers—as he puts it, “I don’t think one can truly prove anything in philosophy; I think one can merely try to convince??—but his arguments are always valid and persuasive.The book has been edited and reworked with great care, so much that an anecdote in the middle of the book can begin, “While I was working on the last few chapters...

Author: By Benjamin C. Burns, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Reflection on The Loopy Self | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...bring about the kind of constitutional convention that would be needed to iron out the details of representation. And students certainly aren’t of one mind on the issue—DiMaggio calls for an “enormous education campaign” to “convince?? students that they are unhappy with the current system of governance...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Democratizing Harvard | 3/19/2002 | See Source »

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