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Article: Hintikka, Jaako, Robert Neville, Ernest Sosa, and Aaron Olson, editors. Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy.(Book Review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- March 1, 2003
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12 volumes. Charlottesville: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2000. Cloth, $288.00--The Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy was held in Boston in August 1998. Twice in this century has there been a philosophy world congress in the United States, both times in Boston. Congresses have long been held every five years, but mostly in France, Germany, Russia, England, and other European countries. Aside from the two in this country, only one had previously been held in the Americas, in Mexico. The organization responsible for holding such congresses is, and has long been, the Federation International de Societes de Philosophie (FISP).
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