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Paul Tomassi: 1963-2005
Author: David Mossley
Journal Title: Discourse
ISSN: 1741-4164
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Volume: 5
Number: 1
Start page: 4
End page: 4
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It was with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Dr Paul Tomassi after a brief illness earlier this year. I had always found him to be a warm and caring person.
As a professional philosopher he made considerable contributions to scholarship in a number of fields, most notably formal logic. He was a keen supporter of students entering higher education through non-traditional routes and worked closely with the University of Aberdeen in this capacity, always seeking ways that students might be supported in their learning and higher education experience. His textbook Logic is an outstanding teaching text and we were honoured to have supported the development of on-line resources from it. Wittgenstein once remarked 'how can I be a logician before I'm a human being!' - Paul Tomassi showed greatness as both.
In this, the ninth issue of Discourse, we publish an interview with Jonathan Lowe, Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. This is the first in a series of interviews with leading academics to reflect the current real views of active and influential teachers. We also have papers from Rob Gleave and Christopher Cowley on web-based skills and benchmarking, and medical ethics respectively.
The second half of this issue contains a number of papers from the Subject Centre international conference in July 2005, Future Discourse. These are only a sample of the papers presented and we hope to publish other materials from the conference in future issues.
Plans are already afoot for a second conference in 2007- watch out for the call for papers in the new year.
With all good wishes for the holidays ahead,
David J Mossley
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