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Date 30th May 1985
This will be used for preparing the jacket copy and title page of the book, and as a basis for catalogue entries and press releases.
Author or Editor's Full Name Andrew Malcolm
Author or Editor's Name as it is to appear on the title-page Andrew Malcolm
Honours, Degrees, etc. in correct order M.A. Philosophy (Cambridge)
Title of book MAKING NAMES
Sub-title (if any) A philosopher's dream of hope
Series (if any)
Nationality British
Place and Date of Birth Oxted, Surrey, U.K.
Home Address 7 Southover Street, Brighton BN2 2UA
Tel. No.
Address to be used in correspondence if different from above
Present Position Seated at desk.
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page 2 (B48)
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* Was born in England in 1948 into the heart of the green-belted middle-class.
* Was educated at Tonbridge School, gaining a scholarship in Natural Sciences to Queens' College, Cambridge, where I took a three-year course in Philosophy ('Moral Sciences' as was), receiving my B.A. (now an M.A.) in 1971.
* Travelled extensively before taking up my Cambridge place in Europe (East & West), Iran, Afghanistan, India, the Far East and Russia.
* Settled in Brighton after leaving university and for four years held a number of adult education philosophy lecture courses in Brighton, Haywards Heath and the surrounding areas, as a result of which the arguments involved in MAKING NAMES began to take shape.
* am unmarried.
Previous Publications, with publishers and dates of publication (please include foreign translations)
None
Forthcoming books (other than the one described on this form)
None
page 3 (B49)
Please write 100-150 words about the book which might be used as the basis for a jacket blurb or in catalogues. In particular you should explain why it is important; if it is a new edition, please highlight the changes since the last edition.
Two strangers meet one summer's morning in a near-miss car accident; Andrew Cause is a philosopher, Malcolm Effect a research scientist. In their ensuing day-long conversation, Cause subjects Effect to a sustained sceptical attack upon the philosophical inadequacies and inconsistencies of his world-view. Traditional problems are introduced, including those of mind and body, cause and effect, free will, universals and the nature of moral goodness. In particular, Cause identifies the scientists' particle theory of the nature of matter as constituting a crucially mistaken and hopeless metaphysics which has now outlived any usefulness. Step-by-step, Effect is reduced to a state of complete confusion and finally demands that Cause produce an alternative. In a literally dramatic climax, the philosopher invokes a new model which, he claims, not only resolves many inconsistencies, but also may indicate a way out of both the theoretical impasse presented by modern particle research and the moral impasse presented by massed nuclear weaponry.
We often need a shorter description of the book which can be used for other publicity, primarily aimed at bookshops. Could you therefore write a short blurb of about 50 words aimed at a non-specialist audience. Sentences should be short, and technical terms should be used sparingly.
MAKING NAMES is an unusual philosophy text. It is written in dialogue form in plain language and is aimed at the general reader. Much more than just a layman's introduction, it mounts a sustained attack upon the metaphysical and moral inconsistencies that underlie the scientific world-view and, in a literally dramatic climax, it invokes a radically new model of the nature of matter.
page 4 (B50)
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None that I know of.
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None that I know of.
page 6 (B52)
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Go to Malcolm's Statement of Claim, to the Case History, to the Affidavits: Ivon Asquith (1), Asquith (2), Henry Hardy, William Shaw (solicitor) (1), Sir Roger Elliott (1), Margaret Goodall, to the Witness Statements: Elliott, Hardy, Richard Charkin, Nicola Bion, Goodall, to the courtroom testimony of the Oxford Six, 14/3/1990: Elliott, Goodall, Bion, Asquith, Charkin, Hardy, to the testimony of Andrew Malcolm 13/3/1990, to the Chancery Court Judgment, to the Appeal Court Judgment, to Malcolm's Points of Claim (the first item in the damages series), to the Damages assessment, or to the Settlement agreement.
Return to the Malcolm vs. Oxford I (1984-92) Index or to the Malcolm vs. Oxford II (2001-02) Index or to the SITE INDEX.
PART 2
DETAILS OF BOOK
I believe that it contains messages and holds out hopes that people are anxious to hear.
I was inspired to start writing MAKING NAMES by the discovery of the dramatic imagery employed in the final chapter, imagery which, I think, perfectly expresses the essentials of the preceding philosophical arguments in a most powerful and most fruitful way.
PART 3
MARKETING AND PUBLICITY