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Brian Penrose (1957-2021)

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Brian loved the AEP programme. He took a personal interest in every applicant and spent many hours scrutinizing writing samples and CVs with a view to determining who would fit the course; by the end of the admissions process, that…

An Empirical Approach to the Analytic-Continental Divide

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They first identify “indicator words” that tend to correlate with (but, they acknowledge, do not guarantee) the presence of particular kinds of arguments. For example: What’s the difference between analytic philosophy and Continental philosophy? In a new paper, a pair…

Project on Kantian Democracy Wins $1.38 Million Grant

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The Kantian Foundations of Democracy aims to provide the first large scale analysis of the theory of democracy of the neglected “Kantian School”. These were philosophers active in Germany in the 1790s, and included Erhard, Bergk, Heydenreich, Reinhold, Tieftrunk, Feuerbach,…