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The old firm of Taylor and Perry interview Dan Little for Philosophy Talk Is history just a series of events, or an interpretation of those events? Is there progress in history? Can history be objecti… more →
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Philosophy of history
wrote 3 days ago: The old firm of Taylor and Perry interview Dan Little for Philosophy Talk Is history just a series o … more →
A Note on Civil War Historiography
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wrote 4 days ago: The New York Times is running, on Facebook, an excellent series of articles on the Civil War. Althou … more →
The reports of Edward II's death may have been greatly exaggerated...
wrote 2 weeks ago: Review: ” Rewriting History: Royal Conspiracies in Later Medieval England”, lecture at U … more →
Ryle and Oakeshott
wrote 3 weeks ago: At last here is the book in which my essay “Ryle and Oakeshott on the know-how/know-that disti … more →
Rejecting collective guilt
wrote 3 weeks ago: Hans Kundnani commented on a cover story in Die Zeit, which reported on attitudes among German teena … more →
Anglo-American Idealism
wrote 1 month ago: I want to give a plug for this new book edited by James Connelly and Stamatoula Panagakou. They have … more →
The Myth of Modernity
wrote 1 month ago: The term “modern” sometimes portrays a false sense that we are at a more advanced stage … more →
Laziness
wrote 3 months ago: Most of us don’t or wouldn’t take too kindly to being called lazy, indolent,slothful, o … more →
“Post-Christian”: I Think Not!
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wrote 4 months ago: POST-CHRISTIAN WORLD? The world was once a more comfortable place to be a Christian, especially in t … more →
Rounauld (Rooh-now)
wrote 5 months ago: The Student (Rounauld) The “Special Someone” The Doctor Herodotus of Halicarnassus Xenophon of Athen … more →
The Practicality of the Historical Novel
wrote 7 months ago: Hayden White spoke on “The Practical Past” to an overflowing classroom at the Freie Univ … more →
Laura Tusa Ilea - “Caring for the Soul” and the “New” in History (Jan Patočka)
wrote 8 months ago: McGill Philosophy Workshop Laura Tusa Ilea “Caring for the Soul” and the “New” in History (Jan Patoč … more →
History and objects: Braudel
wrote 9 months ago: Once you begin to move history out from being the sole province of human beings, you need a philosop … more →
the phenomenology of the fanatic
wrote 9 months ago: The enthusiast is carried away by an unrealizabe ideal; the fanatic by that which is most real, and … more →
Old Reviews of Experience and its Modes
wrote 10 months ago: Here are two reviews of Experience and its Modes that I’ve only recently come across. The form … more →
Can I read this as being about objects?
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wrote 10 months ago: The “unmotivatedness” of the sign requires a synthesis in which the completely other is … more →
The (Literary) Historian's Imperative
wrote 11 months ago: What is the role of literary criticism today, within the academy and without? As academics that are … more →
Richard Evans, David Irving and the Holocaust
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wrote 1 year ago: Here’s another hefty article/paper I wrote. Enjoy. - – - – - – - – - … more →
Constructivism and Relativism in Oakeshott
wrote 1 year ago: Here is a MS of my paper that was published here. … more →
