Month July 2021

Richard Double (1948-2021)

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Double was a tireless teacher and generalist who wrote provocatively across many areas of philosophy, specializing in ethics and free will. Double‘s work is cited in six sections of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: moral responsibility, autonomy in moral and…

Sliwa from Cambridge to Vienna

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Paulina Sliwa, currently senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Cambridge, will be moving to the University of Vienna, where she will be professor of moral and political philosophy. Professor Sliwa works in ethics and moral epistemology, and has…

Overlooked Originators in Philosophy

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[Hilma af Klint, “Series VIII – Picture of the Starting Point”] In a recent post at his blog, Stephen Mumford (Durham), provides some historical examples of this phenomenon: In Professor Mumford’s examples, there is the suggestion that those historically credited…