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1 month

Yale University Press has published a 492 page book apparently defending the claim that Christian saints actually ‘flew’ or levitated

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My father, Walter Crane 1932-2023. He had a long and happy life, and he died peacefully at home last week. He was much loved and will be greatly missed.

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⁦ @lastpositivist ⁩

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3 years

Even the weirdest Americans have perfect teeth

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The house where Wittgenstein lived, 1920-22, Trattenbach, Lower Austria

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Lomonosov University: "We, students, graduate students, teachers, staff & graduates of the oldest university in Russia, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, we categorically condemn the war that our country unleashed in Ukraine" 7500 signed

Сообщество МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова против войны | Notion

Мы, студенты, аспиранты, преподаватели, сотрудники и выпускники старейшего университета России, Московского государственного университета имени М.В. Ломоносова, категорически осуждаем войну, которую...

msualumniagainstwar.notion.site

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Tim Crane

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4 years

After eight wonderful years, my employment at @theTLS as philosophy consultant editor has now come to an end because of budget cuts. I will miss my wonderful colleagues in London Bridge Street, & sorry to end this very rewarding work, getting philosophy out to a wider readership

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2 years

I'm proud to announce a website in memory of my teacher and mentor, the great philosopher Hugh Mellor, who died almost two years ago on June 21, 2020. The site collects Hugh's philosophical work, downloadable papers, memoirs and obituaries, and photos.

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Huge news: the Austrian research agency, the @FWF_at has awarded us a ‘cluster of excellence’ in philosophy. I am the director of research. With matching funding, we have €15M for five years for institutions

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25 days

Dan Dennett, a great philosopher, great company, a kind and generous man, larger than life. RIP. (Photo Beirut 2011)

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1 year

Not a very original thought, but: social media really brings out the mean side of people -- people I know are saying unkind and unfair things here about colleagues which I don't think they would say to their faces

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2 years

The practice of asking for letters of recommendation before longlisting is a huge imposition on referees, in the current job market. Departments should think about what they are doing, asking for 100s of unnecessary letters to be sent. Updating each letter takes time, add it up

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3 years

I once turned up to give a talk and no one showed up, not even the student organisers. Slightly despondent, I drank two cans of beer on the train back to London and had an early night.

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3 years

Just remembering the time I gave a talk in a uk university, 3 people turned up and 1 fell asleep after 10 min. They then told me there was no money for a hotel and I had to sleep on a camp bed in someone's house. Mid way through the night their dog bit me.

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10 months

This explains why Alasdair MacIntyre is still the greatest moral philosopher of the 20th century

On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century

Alasdair MacIntyre on incompatibilities.

churchlifejournal.nd.edu

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Tim Crane

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2 years

Forthright and pretty devastating response by ⁦ @lea_ypi ⁩ to the review by Thomas Meaney in ⁦ @LRB ⁩

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4 years

RIP D.H. Mellor 1938-2020

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6 years

Academic journal publishing is a scam. Me in this week’s ⁦ @TheTLS ⁩

The peer review industry:implausible and outrageous | Essay by Tim Crane

Tim Crane considers the vast financial burden private academic publishers place on public institutions

www.the-tls.co.uk

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3 years

Ok so German is the most wonderful language in the world despite being less logical than Hungarian... but at least those of us struggling with it don’t have this problem

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2 years

Sewage

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7 years

First copy of my new book has arrived. Published on 30 October

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Tim Crane

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2 years

So, I wrote a review of David Chalmers's new book, Reality+ for the excellent magazine, The Philosopher. @thephilosopher1923 Spoiler: it's a terrific book, but I have a few criticisms...

"Taking Simulation Seriously": Tim Crane reviews Reality+ by David Chalmers

"The mere possibility that we might be living in a VR simulation is considered to be a reason to take it seriously as a theory of reality."

www.thephilosopher1923.org

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3 years

Vienna mask vibe

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3 years

@oliverburkeman Exactly. What happened to @Docstockk was not that she was ‘silenced’, and nor did she claim she was. Rather, she was aggressively harassed by people who did not bother to read what she actually wrote.

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4 years

Hey philosophy twitter I’m thinking of starting a thread about the Chinese Room argument. I wonder how that will go down

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4 months

TODAY at 9am GMT, I’m on the wonderful @BBC programme ‘In our time’ discussing panpsychism with Joanna Leidenhag and @Philip_Goff

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Panpsychism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that fundamental particles have consciousness.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Why philosophy is not critical thinking; plus some comments on the ignorance of Stephen Hawking

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2 years

@Docstockk @kimwillsher1 @TAFKAMacM And also this: 'the author has gone from being an unobjectionable matron of the political left to one of its most hated villains'. Matron?

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1 month

I just received the Persian translation of my book, The Mechanical Mind. Many many thanks to my translator Ahmad Lotfi

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4 years

RIP Roger Scruton, a fine philosopher, a fine man, and a true friend

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1 month

@nybooks This is the book and the reviewer

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7 months

Nigel Warburton has written a terrific review of the memoir of Daniel Dennett, one of the great philosophers of our time @philosophybites @TheTLS

Daniel Dennett’s evolutionary philosophy of mind

Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024. Early in his memoir Daniel Dennett tells us he’s been lucky. Lucky to have survived two serious cardiac crises,

www.the-tls.co.uk

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10 months

Mark Rowe's biography of JL Austin is an amazing book. Not only does he being Austin to life, a complex but sympathetic character, and paints the best picture I know of 20th century Oxford philosophy, but he also tells the gripping story of Austin's intelligence work in the War

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3 years

Paperback arrived. Looks serious. @suhrkamp

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3 years

Reading Alice in Wonderland is a bit like reading Anscombe. You never know why one bit follows another, it’s all vaguely bad-tempered, and ‘should’ is used where today we say ‘would’

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4 months

Commemorative 2€ coin from Finland, in memory of GH von Wright. Probably the only 20th century philosopher commemorated on a coin?

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3 years

Today I’m drinking beer from a silver tankard which was left to me by my friend and mentor Hugh Mellor (1938-2020). Beer in a tankard is a very Hugh thing, I think.

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1 year

Hold the date! European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Vienna 21-25 August 2023. Call for papers!

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5 years

Just one of the difficulties of learning Hungarian

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3 years

Snowy Vienna

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2 years

As night follows day

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2 years

Today's date is 2/2/22

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5 years

Quite amazing that Saul Kripke will be talking at the Institute of Philosophy in London on 'Naming & Necessity Revisited' on 30 May @IP_SAS

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2 years

Uladzimir Matskevich, a Belarusian philosopher, has been in detention since 4 August 2021. He is on hunger strike. CEU Philosophy Department expresses solidarity with him PLEASE RT

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3 years

And the school where he taught

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3 years

RIP Katherine Hawley. A lovely person and superb philosopher. Such awful news.

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3 years

Some academics I know are rather proud of the old-style reading lists they used to give (the sort I got when I was a student): nothing done week by week, just a list of books or articles, no page numbers specified 1/4

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4 years

Here is a (perhaps) little known fact about Hugh Mellor: when he reached the age of 70, he resigned his Fellowship of the British Academy, on the grounds that he was now 'too old and out of date' to be making decisions about fellowships, grants etc 1/2 @BritishAcademy_

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7 years

First day in my new job @CEU !

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3 years

A year ago, our student Raza Khan died in tragic circumstances. We have established a prize for student work in the philosophy of mind, in his memory

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3 years

If you are trying to use semantic evidence for some non-semantic thesis, then I would advise looking at evidence from a number of languages. End of today’s lesson.

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Tim Crane

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4 years

Finally, Vienna

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2 years

The Philosophical Gourmet Report seems to have atrophied itself into irrelevance. The same star-studded departments at the top, with a few changes each time further down. I think people now have a pretty good idea of how the reputations stand. Time to wind the whole thing down?

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2 years

Today I start my new position as Pro-Rector for Teaching and Learning @CEU . Strategic vision here I come....

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Tim Crane

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1 year

Beautiful lucid summary of Rawls’s views by @JoWolffBSG in @TheTLS

The curious political legacy of John Rawls’s masterwork

The President: OK, Professor. Justice. Hit me!John Rawls: The first principle of a just society is that everyone should have equal and extensive basic

www.the-tls.co.uk

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Tim Crane

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4 years

Our first colloquium talk (online) is by Daniel Dennett, 'Are We Just Moist Robots?' 3.45pm Tuesday 6 October

Are we just 'moist robots'? Autonomy, Control and the Brain

events.ceu.edu

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4 years

Today is my first undergraduate class @CEU — the first undergraduate cohort in CEU’s history. Exciting new development for the university. (Undergrad education I mean, not my lecture)

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7 years

‘Apple said the system only unlocks the phone when the user is actively looking at it’ Now there’s one for the philosophy of perception

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Tim Crane

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4 years

It is actually quite easy to write to people without using the words ‘reach out’. You could say, for example, ‘contact’

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6 years

The press release by @CEU has emphasised the establishment of a new campus in Vienna and it might appear to the casual reader that this is a mere development of its academic activities. So I would like to just summarise the main points for those who have not followed the story

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10 months

The University of Vienna has advertised SIX philosophy postdocs as part of the Knowledge in Crisis Cluster of Excellence @FWF_at . Check out @knowledgecrisis for the details

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2 months

Great to see David Pitt’s book is out. And what a cover!

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3 years

Our department in Vienna is looking for an Assistant Professor! Spread the word, please RT

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7 months

Philosophers! 3 postdocs in philosophy @ceu ! As part of the brand new @FWF_at Cluster of Excellence, Knowledge in Crisis. Philjobs ad coming v soon. @knowledgecrisis

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6 years

I'ver deleted my account. I prefer to keep my online papers on . Academia's constant requests for upgrades and limitations on which papers you can and cannot see was becoming frustrating.

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3 years

One of my many objections to footnotes in philosophy works is that they can be a sign of lazy writing -- the writer has a point to make but can't quite be bothered to think exactly where in the paper it should come, so they just drop it in a footnote

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4 years

Look at the number of hands that go up in answer to her question. Staggering.

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4 years

How you answer a question, right there.

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4 years

This week's philosophy issue of @TheTLS ! Rachel Fraser on AS Barwich on smell, Nigel Warburton on philosophers & the pandemic, Clare Carlisle & Yitzhak Melamed on Spinoza, Kathleen Stock on Judith Butler, Nikhil Krishnan on Isaiah Berlin, and me on Brian Cantwell Smith on AI

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6 years

Department for Education: ““Toby Young’s diverse experience includes posts at Harvard and Cambridge”. Wikipedia: he was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard and he started, but did not finish, a PhD at Cambridge in the 80s. On the normal understanding of the word, these are not 'posts'

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Tim Crane

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1 year

The @OpenUniversity has released some fascinating dialogues with philosophers from the 1970s, with short contemporary comments. Here I am commenting on Charles Taylor and Tony Quinton on mind-identity.

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Tim Crane

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3 years

German translation arrived today. This must be one of the best titles ever — since I didn’t invent this specific title, I think I am allowed to say this? Everything sounds better in German. Thanks, @IanMalcolm10

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3 years

A common view among English people, I think, is that the German language is (i) ugly or 'harsh', but (ii) logical. I have the opposite view. It is the most beautiful language I know but it is absurdly illogical in many ways.

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4 years

OK I've had enough of all this Coronavirus news, I just can't absorb it, I can't understand it. I'm going back to Brexit.

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7 years

My book The Meaning of Belief recommended by NYT @nytimesbooks as one of twelve for this week!

12 New Books We Recommend This Week (Published 2017)

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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3 years

Come and study philosophy at @CEU ! Application deadline 30 January. Financial aid is available for PhDs and MAs

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6 years

Here is an excerpt from my book, The Meaning of Belief

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3 years

This has a kind of poetic beauty: "David Frost could go even further and say freely and expressly: we want outside input in identifying opportunities because we do not have a clue what to do next. "Those who supported Brexit would either shrug or nod at the sentiment"

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7 years

I’m delighted to announce that Rae Langton will be the next Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge @LewyLib

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5 years

Neither of the above

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6 months

Memorable and extraordinary performance of the Goldberg Variations last night by @VikingurMusic at the Vienna Konzerthaus

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4 years

This is extraordinary and impressive

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

4 years

“Germany’s past is a fractured past, with responsibility for the murdering of millions and the suffering of millions… And that is why I say that this country can only be loved with a broken heart.” The President of Germany marks 75 years since the end of the war in Europe.

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The unprepossessing village/suburb in which I grew up (Kidlington, Oxfordshire) contains this beautiful church, dating from the 13th C, with the spire added in the 1400s. Sometimes things from your past strike you as if you’ve seen them for the first time

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9 months

Indrek Reiland and I coincided in our outfits for the #ECAP11 reception at the University of Vienna. 35 degrees

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4 years

Between 1961 and 1966, my mother now aged 84 and in good health, spent every weekday at home with three kids under 5, while my dad was at work. Not exactly lockdown but everyday I think of her with renewed admiration!

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2 years

Good letter about Philippa Foot but the subeditor was not on the ball @TheTLS

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3 years

The tributes to Gil Harman are really something, and ring true to me. It's good to learn that as well as being one of the most original and wide-ranging analytic philosophers of the last 60 years, he was also a conscientious and generous teacher. RIP

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3 years

Somewhat to my surprise and relief, I got my first Pfizer jab today. I wasn’t expecting it to happen so quickly here

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4 years

I've used the iPhone 'portrait' mode for a selfie with bookshelves, so people won't be able to see which heretical books I have on my shelves

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1 month

Review from @nybooks . It's not an April fool!

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'When Jacob Rees-Mogg recently wished to hark back to a certain sensibility to stiffen the sinews of our Brexit nation, he published a book called The Victorians.. We are not reviewing it in the TLS, preferring to focus on books that engage with the subject seriously' @TheTLS

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2 years

Just submitted a grant application. I think this is justified

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3 years

This series has huge potential

Bad Philosophy Book Covers

@BookPhilosophy

3 years

A new day, a new bad philosophy book cover. Starting off slow with a personal favorite.

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5 years

I’m rather surprised to say this but I think Ernest Sosa may have solved epistemology

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5 years

Hey all you philosophers telling us about the five terrible jobs you had! I would never had hired you if I had known your cvs were so bad!

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1 year

My student Nikhil Mahant (the youngest looking one in this picture) gave a brilliant defence of his Phd thesis (great title: Names are Words) on Monday. We celebrated in the v friendly Magazin restaurant (top wine list). Thanks too to Zoltan Szabo & Hanoch Ben-Yami the examiners

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4 years

This is brilliant. The problem is, I can't say with certainty that I have never used any of these

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4 years

A useful list of clichés to avoid when writing a book review, from @TheTLS

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4 years

I wrote something for @theTLS on Roger Scruton

The TLS

@TheTLS

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Roger Scruton, 1944–2020: @timcrane102 remembers the philosopher, who died this week

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2 months

I've finally updated my website, and added online version of all my latest papers, and links to videos and podcasts

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2 years

After almost two years of avoiding this virus, I seem to have caught Covid.

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6 years

@philosophybites @wmarybeard The @guardian @BBCNews should also correct the incorrect statement by @educationgovuk that Toby Young has held any academic posts @farnsa @wmarybeard

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Obituary for Hugh Mellor in Le Monde (of all places!)

La mort du philosophe britannique Hugh Mellor

Il était l’un des derniers représentants de la grande tradition de philosophie de l’université de Cambridge, où il a fait toute sa carrière de professeur. Il est mort le 21 juin, à l’âge de 81 ans

www.lemonde.fr

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