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Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, 
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Princeton University
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University of Melbourne
Australia

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Department of Philosophy
The University of Pittsburgh
USA

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Professorial Fellow, 
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Florida Atlantic University
USA

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The University of Toronto
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Professorial Fellow, 
School of Philosophy
University of East Anglia
UNITED KINGDOM

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 The Charleston Advisor
Volume 5, Number 3
January 2004
http://www.charlestonco.com/

Date of Review: November 12, 2003 
Composite Score: **** 3/4 [out of *****]
Reviewed by: Helene C. Williams 
English Bibliographer for the Humanities 
Collection Development 
Widener Library 
Harvard University
USA

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Department of English
The University of Western Ontario
CANADA

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University of Cambridge
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Mount Saint Mary's College
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Department of Philosophy
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
USA

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Bibliothèque de Philosophie (Bisp)
Université Catholique de Louvain
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Department of Philosophy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
USA

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Library Technology/Memorial Library
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Johns Hopkins University
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Women's Studies Program
Gustavus Adolphus College
USA

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Department of Philosophy
Oklahoma State University
USA

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Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Bioethics 
University of Pennsylvania
USA

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Cornell University
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University of Wisconsin - Fond du Lac 
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School of Social Science 
University of New England 
AUSTRALIA

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Brigham Young University
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Department of Philosophy
University of Colorado at Boulder
USA 

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University of Virginia
USA

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Münster Germany

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Department of Political Science
University of California, San Diego
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Department of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh
USA 

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Archbishops' Council of the Church of England
United Kingdom

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Chair, Department of Philosophy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
USA

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Graduate Student
Florida State University
USA

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Department of Philosophy
University of Connecticut, Torrington
USA

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Department of Philosophy
Loyola University of Chicago USA

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Temple University Law School
USA

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School of Education
Stanford University

USA

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Departamento de Filosofía
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
México

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Acquisitions Department
Macquarie University Library
NSW, Australia

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Universidad de Costa Rica

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Thomasburg, Ontario
Canada

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Columbia University
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Faculty of Education
Soka University
Japan

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Department of Philosophy
Indiana University
USA

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School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Carleton University
Canada

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Department of Philosophy
University of Kansas
USA

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Center for Naturfilosofi og Vidensk
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USA

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Georgia State University
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Department of Philosophy
Bowling Green State University
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Department of Philosophy
University of Pennsylvania 
USA

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Department of Philosophy
Bond University
Australia 

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Sidgwick Review Summer 1998" 

Dr. Julian Baggini
Editor
The Philosopher's Web Magazine 

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University of Exeter
Book Review in Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal

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Poland

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Department of Philosophy
Denison University
USA

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National University of Ireland, Maynooth

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William R. Perkins Library
Duke University
USA

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Prof. John Shook
Department of Philosophy
Oklahoma State University
USA

"The Past Masters database [Aquinas] makes it far easier to find citations and relevant passages . . . I can quickly search for variations in word translations that would otherwise take far more time using printed indexes . . . An excellent teaching tool." 

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Department of Philosophy
Marquette University
USA

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Balliol College
Oxford University
UK

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Prof. Donald Cress
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Northern Illinois University
USA

"There can be no doubt that the CD-ROM version of John Dewey, The Collected Works will provide a vital new stimulus to further Dewey scholarship. The ease of access it provides facilitates a qualitative difference in speed and dexterity of scholarly searches and comparisons of the full range of the marvelous thirty-seven volumes of text provided by Southern Illinois University Press and the long years of work of the editors at the Center for Dewey Studies.

The New Folio VIEWS software is a great improvement over what I had heretofore seen, and since there are other electronic editions of philosophical works available from the same firm, or in production (including Peirce's Collected Papers and the emerging Santayana edition), the range of potential comparisons and searches can and will be vastly expanded. No serious Dewey scholar will want to be without this electronic edition . . ." 

Dr. H. G. Callaway
University of Mainz & Rider University
Book Review in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy

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J.B. Schneewind.
Department of Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University
USA