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I first met Tom around 2002. I was a graduate student in Philosophy at UVA and dating someone who was…
I didn’t intend to write a dissertation on Kant’s ethics. But I took a seminar from Tom and gradually it…
As another of the participants in that 1993 NEH summer seminar, I can attest to everything that Richard Galvin says…
I had the great fortune of studying with Tom at Chapel Hill. I finished my dissertation in 1999, but I…
Thomas E. Hill died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on July22, 2026. What follows are some remembrances of his major…
In one of my UNC graduate seminars with Tom, a classmate remarked that cotemporary Kantians seemed interested in Kant only…
I would posit the following question to practicing philosophers out there: have you examined all of the major LLMs to…
…are out in force because the Political Science Department and several other groups at Brooklyn College are sponsoring two speakers discussing the "BDS" (or boycott, divest, and sanction) movement in response to Israeli crimes against the Palestinians. John Protevi (LSU) has a good summary. And the President of Brooklyn College has made a good, public statement.
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