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I first met David as an undergraduate at Oxford. I had stepped into a graduate seminar and haltingly asked my…
I had the privilege of learning of David and his work very recently. Still, this has been my most impressionable…
I did not have any personal acquaintance with David Charles, but through his writings he did more than anyone else…
When, as a nervous graduate student, I found my way into a small conference of senior scholars, David found out…
Very sad news. I had the opportunity to get to know David during a series of workshops on the Parva…
I will always hold onto this image of David: sitting cross-legged in his study at Oriel College, Oxford, with a…
His work on Aristotle’s teleology reshaped how a generation of graduate students read the Physics, and he was unusually generous…
Remarkable. When I think about what I hate most about this country, the gun craziness looms large. No civilized society makes it so easy to carry guns. If you think your kindergarten teacher needs to be armed to protect the little kids from mass murder by a gun-carrying maniac, that is decisive evidence that your gun laws are too lax.
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