Will Kymlicka und Sue Donaldson: Zoopolis

An Interview with Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka

“ The Politics of reconciliation in multicultural societies ” 1 , Will Kymlicka and Bashir Bashir

Bashir Bashir, a research fellow at the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and Will Kymlicka, established author and Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen’s University, are the editors of the volume The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies. The volume addresses various perspectives of multicultural pro...

Kymlicka on Libertarianism: a Response

In his well-known introduction to contemporary political philosophy,1 Will Kymlicka includes a substantial chapter on libertarianism, plus a preface and introduction that are also relevant to the topic. These sections are likely to help form many readers’ opinions regarding libertarian political philosophy. Unfortunately, many of Kymlicka’s assumptions and arguments seem to me to be crucially m...

Formality of Donaldson submanifolds

We introduce the concept of s–formal minimal model as an extension of formality. We prove that any orientable compact manifold M , of dimension 2n or (2n− 1), is formal if and only if M is (n− 1)–formal. The formality and the hard Lefschetz property are studied for the Donaldson submanifolds of symplectic manifolds constructed in [13]. This study permits us to show an example of a Donaldson sym...

Editorial Sue Buckley

The first paper, entitled Françoise, a fifteen year follow-up, from Jean Rondal and his colleagues M. Elbouz, M. Ylieff, and L. Docquier, at the University of Liège in Belgium presents an individual case study that describes in detail the changes in language and memory function of Françoise, a 47 year old lady with Down syndrome. Françoise will already be well known to many in this field as she...