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I didn’t intend to write a dissertation on Kant’s ethics. But I took a seminar from Tom and gradually it…
As another of the participants in that 1993 NEH summer seminar, I can attest to everything that Richard Galvin says…
I had the great fortune of studying with Tom at Chapel Hill. I finished my dissertation in 1999, but I…
Thomas E. Hill died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on July22, 2026. What follows are some remembrances of his major…
In one of my UNC graduate seminars with Tom, a classmate remarked that cotemporary Kantians seemed interested in Kant only…
I would posit the following question to practicing philosophers out there: have you examined all of the major LLMs to…
…now that the authoritarian Orban is gone.
(My own view is that no one did more philosophical damage to Marxism in the 20th-century than Lukács, but there should obviously be a Lukács archive in the city that was his home for so long.)
(Thanks to J.P. Loo for the pointer.)
I first met Tom around 2002. I was a graduate student in Philosophy at UVA and dating someone who was…