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I recommend, to those who have not read it, Kenny’s spiritual autobiography ‘A Path From Rome’. Sadly it seems to…
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
In 196I I entered graduate school at the University of Chicago, in Political Science of all places. After two weeks…
Sometimes it is said that a view worthy of refutation is a worthy work indeed. Davidson’s work on action sentences…
Tony Kenny used to say that he realized early on that he was not going to do important original work…
The Tractatus book is beautifully done, and the pop-out model is a great teaching aid when I discuss the Tractatus…
David Berman treated students with great generosity and seriousness as partners in philosophical discovery; correlatively, he was completely unimpressed by…
Via Ralph Weir on Twitter, I came across this interesting project to incentivize members of the public to decipher the remains of philosophical scrolls damaged by the infamous eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in antiquity. The bit deciphered so far concerns the pleasures of food, a good topic when in Naples!
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