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Beyond the area of his expertise

Simon Blackburn is clearly doing his best to give philosophers a bad name through his own “popular” writings, but his latest effort —part of “a series in which academics range beyond their area of expertise”—is spectacularly awful. Norman Geras, with whom I often disagree, takes issue with him in a series of posts here . [...]

Final Trumpet

Humphrey Lyttelton has died. The Guardian has an obituary written by George Melly, who also happens to be dead. I first came across Lyttelton not on Radio 4, but in Peter Winch’s The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy, of all places. He pops up there in an anecdote showing why some [...]

Maybe Baby

Henry has inspired me. I’ve been trying everything to break through my blogger’s block – even to the point of going to a writing class in UCLA. (which is great, but doesn’t have much bearing on blogging so far) Generally the best way to start blogging again may be to announce that I’m taking a [...]

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