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  1. Mark Glouberman's avatar

    Many respectful and affectionate remembrances appear on the Balliol College website. https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/august/sir-anthony-kenny-1931-2026

  2. Michael Vernon Wedin's avatar

    In 196I I entered graduate school at the University of Chicago, in Political Science of all places. After two weeks…

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  5. David Stern's avatar

    The Tractatus book is beautifully done, and the pop-out model is a great teaching aid when I discuss the Tractatus…

  6. Another former student's avatar

    David Berman treated students with great generosity and seriousness as partners in philosophical discovery; correlatively, he was completely unimpressed by…

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Bristol sociology professor terminated for his anti-Zionist views prevails in employment tribunal

We noted this case several years ago, and now the termianted professor, David Miller, has prevailed in his case before the employment tribunal.   The UK, unlike the U.S., actually protects all employees from discrimination based on their "philosophical beliefs" (American constitutional law provides some protection for public employees in this regard, but private sector employees are out of luck).   The full opinion is available from Professor Miller's twitter account.

(Thanks to Joe Cairns for the pointer.)

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