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Norman Malcolm: A Memoir

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Anthony Serafini
Anthony Serafini
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Centenary College of New Jersey
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I first met Norman Malcolm in the fall of 1963 when, as a terrified sophomore, I took his course in Free Will and Determinism at Cornell. I believe I had already heard that Malcolm was a figure of almost legendary proportions.

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Philosophy , Volume 68 , Issue 265 , July 1993 , pp. 309 - 324
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1993

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19 Ibid.

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36 I would like to thank Renford Bambrough and Sydney Shoemaker for encouraging and helpful comments on an earlier and less philosophical version of this paper.