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Professor O’Grady’s considerate tribute highlights many of David Berman’s admirable qualities. I did not know Berman well personally – I…
Permanecer junto a los griegos. Ética, dialéctica y política en la filosofía temprana de Hans-Georg Gadamer. San Martín: UNSAM Edita…
I’ve only just heard this news and am sorry to read it. I was taught as an undergrad and postgrad…
I taught in the philosophy department (“mental and moral sciences – philosophy”) at TCD in 1977-1979, and so had David…
Incidentally, oral examinations are very common in Denmark. Though I teach philosophy of science, I work in a Math Department,…
As a student of a terminal MA program, I would love to have this opportunity (in this counterfactual situation). It…
Seriously, could one be any clearer? What a scumbag (that’s a technical term for those who flirt with Nazism).
The much harder question here is how scary is this. Combined with the rise of the Hispanic Nazi scumbag Nick Fuentes, I’m beginning to think it is very scary.
I never met Alan, sadly, but his work leading the charge in making philosophy of sex “a thing” in contemporary…