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The phrase ‘Does the fact’ naturally invites howls of derision: it’s a fact that every child knows that the Japanese…
I think I would answer “Does the fact that the United States of America has never experienced a foreign occupation…
Rex Martin was a first class person with a sharp intellect and wry sense of humor. He was an excellent…
21. Is style the last refuge against AI?
All about class.
*important caveat that said TT job was secured via an internal hire where two other grads of the same school…
Excellent questions! Re question 6, I have actually already invented a new punctuation mark. I can’t type it here, as…
Not a philosopher per se, but a philosophically minded biologist; as Michael Weisberg (Penn) wrote to me, "Along with Dick Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould, he was one of the most influential evolutionary biologists on philosophers." There's an obituary here.
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