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• More About French Philosophy's Reception of German Philosophy After WWI

  After WWI, British and French students were awash in the anti-German sentiments of their respective cultures. But French philosophy students were exposed to... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Why French Philosophy Wasn't as anti-German as British Philosophy

  After World War I, British philosophy, and not French philosophy, followed a trend of diminished engagement with its German counterpart. What accounts for this... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Philosophers Reading (and Being Read In) WWI Lit

  Here's another philosopher who was a soldier in WWI: Etienne Gilson, who was taken prisoner early in the Battle of Verdun (in February, 1916). Read more

  Posted on 29 February 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Luce on the War

  In the Irish Times newspaper,(Nov. 11, 1929, p. 4) there's a report by an anonymous journalist about a sermon given by A. A. Luce in Belfast Cathedral (on the... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Outline of the Impact of WWI on British Philosophy

  My current hypotheses about the War's impact (asserted but not here defended): The War's influence on British philosophy was primarily negative -- it turned... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Fragments on WWI and Philosophers

  

  1. In an earlier post, I mentioned a paper by Jack Reynolds about the impact on philosophy of WWI. It turns out that Reynolds' paper is on-line at Academia.2. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Arthur Aston Luce, Berkeley Scholar and WWI Vet

  

  One of the philosophers who fought in WWI was A. A. Luce (1882-1977). He lived for most of his life in Ireland, where he taught at Trinity College, Dublin (TCD). Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• On the Nature of the Question Concening WWI

  Inquiry into WWI's possible impact on philosophy does not require one to say that a given philosophical stance would not have been formulated but for the War. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Conjectures About the Impact on British Philosophy of WWI

  

  I found more sources that address the possible repercussions of WWI for British philosophy (and esp. for British analytic philosophy). Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• More About the War and British Philosophy

  Following my last post, my search for some discussion of WWI's impact on British analytic philosophy has borne fruit.1. First, in a recent paper, Stewart... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Analytic Philosophy and World War I

  

  I'm struck by the dearth of references to World War I in standard histories of analytic philosophy. I don't pretend to have done a comprehensive search, but... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• More Quotations About Facts

  (Part I from last May)G. E. Moore (1953): '"Facts" is a very ambiguous word, although it is so constantly used as if it were clear.' (Some Main Problems of... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Final Batch of 2015 Philosophy Links

  

  I begin the new year by trying to finish off the old one with this roster of philosophy links from the final third of 2015. I've done some housekeeping by addin... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2016 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Timothy Dewar ('Harry') Weldon

  In WWII, philosopher T. D. Weldon was Sir Arthur ('Bomber') Harris' assistant in Bomber Command. He helped Harris formulate the arguments and draft the document... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Three Mistakes in a Recent Book on Einstein and Bergson

  I've seen few philosophical works on the books-of-the-year lists. One of the few is The Physicist and the Philosopher by Jimena Canales. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• A Third Round of Philosophy Links

  

  Mary Beard is interviewed about SPQR (her book about ancient Rome that's on many books-of-the-year lists).Kimberly Ferzan (Law, UVA) reviews Dana Kay Nelkin's... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• More Philosophy Links (several Book Reviews Included)

  

  Andy West in the Guardian: 'Philosophy saved me from poverty and drugs: that’s why I teach it to kids.'Research by the Institute of Education has shown that a... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Six Philosophy Links

  

  The first issue of Argumenta has articles by Brandom, Audi, Hochberg, Hacker, and Kriegel.Announcement of Nora Hämäläinen's new book, Literature and Moral... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Fact-Opinion 11, Against Epistemic Conceptions of Fact

  

  I've written before about epistemic conceptions of fact, according to which the first word in the phrase 'established fact' is redundant. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Early September Links

  Syrian refugee philosopher receives Goethe Medal. 'The Syrian philosopher Sadik Al-Azm, one of the most recognized intellectuals in the Arab world, is a strong... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY