Your additions welcome. 27. showing the historical background of a philosophical idea Sandy Goldberg, professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, asked this question recently on Facebook, clarifying “a contribution is something that would be recognizable by peer reviewers and by…
Despite Ostervald’s efforts to make his sales talk sound attractive, it revealed that he had misled Gosse about a fundamental fact: the STN was publishing a pirated edition. Gosse shot back an indignant reply: “We were firmly persuaded that you…
The Killam Prizes were first awarded in 1981. Philosophers who have won the prize over the past decade include Thomas Hurka (Toronto, 2017), Paul Thagard (Waterloo, 2013), and Jean Grondin (Montreal, 2012). A full list of previous winners is here.…
Professor Linehan’s channel is Let’s Get Logical. It covers various matters relating to logic, of course, as well as other philosophical topics. Here’s his video on validity: But I bet there several other sets of introductory philosophy videos created by philosophy…
How these two old civilizations became central to American intellectual life is a story that begins not in antiquity, and not even in the Renaissance, but in the Enlightenment. Classics as we know it today is a creation of the…
The app hosts an array of audio-only conversations which users can host, participate in, or just listen to. According to Vogue, Clubhouse is “a dizzying bringing together of live podcast-style conversations, panel discussions, networking opportunities… and advantageous multiple-room use (locked and…
First, it is vastly more likely that Frege obtained his knowledge of Stoic logic from one text, rather than from browsing through the dozens of Greek and Latin works with testimonies on Stoic logic that Prantl brings together. (Of the…
Rosenblitt, who has written previously on Cummings’s debt to classical literature, isn’t trying to displace Kennedy or Sawyer-Lauçanno, but she is trying to shake things up. She focuses exclusively on Cummings’s early life and service in the volunteer ambulance corps…
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He did stand up to the Nazis, not by saving Jews but by trying to stymie recruitment for the SS. In March 1943, he was sent to a Nazi concentration camp. He was released in January 1945, then conscripted by…
Waheed Hussain, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, has died. Professor Hussain joined the University of Toronto Department of Philosophy in 2014. Just before that, he held a visiting position at the University Center for Human Values…
Complement with Bishop on why everyone should experience at least one long period of solitude in life and James Gleick reading her monumental poem about the nature of our knowledge, then revisit Amanda Palmer reading “Spell to Be Said Against…