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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…
This is terribly sad news. I did not know David well, but he proved to be a hugely encouraging and…
I never met Alan, sadly, but his work leading the charge in making philosophy of sex “a thing” in contemporary…
Based on this analysis by philosopher Charles Lassiter, more than 20% of job ads now mention AI. This is going to result in a lot of weak appointments, given how few philosophers really have expertise in this area.
In 196I I entered graduate school at the University of Chicago, in Political Science of all places. After two weeks…