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Let me recommend Eleanor Knox’s essay on IAI a few months ago for what I think is a much more…
There are many places in the essay where I would get off the argumentative train, but here’s perhaps the first.…
Totally agreed Colin.
Thanks so much for this, Matthew. I hadn’t heard about UKALPP’s approach, but it sounds like an excellent model for…
Thanks to Colin Marshall for an excellent document. The annual UK Analytic Legal & Political Philosophy (UKALPP) Conference now convenes…
Thanks for this comment, Alan. I think the point you make carries weight – especially for some younger philosophers, in-person…
I’m a lifelong APA member with APA emeritus status. I see many reasons for the online conference, and perhaps the…
Professor Føllesdal, who was emeritus at both Stanford University (where he spent most of his career) and the University of Oslo (in his native Norway), was best-known for his work in philosophy of language, logic, and on phenomenology, especially Husserl. Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Føllesdal or from those who would like to comment on the significance of his work.
(I learned of his death from Martin Kusch on Facebook.)
A teacher and colleague I was grateful for, I will miss him. In this 2020 interview, he reflects on his life: https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/issn.1504-2901-2020-01-05
It saddens my heart to hear of Dagfinn’s passing. I believe I was the last PhD student at Stanford to have Dagfinn on their dissertation committee and have fond memories of his course on Quine and co-taught seminars with Ken Taylor on Reference and John Perry on Subjectivity. I greatly admired his encyclopedic knowledge of both the “analytic” and “continental” traditions (to use labels he rightly found unhelpful), his remarkable ability to put complex theories and arguments into plain and simple terms, and most of all the kindness that flowed so effortlessly from him. He will be missed.
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