Reminded today of this very nice compliment from Tom Stoppard (his favorite book of 2020)
Bill Twining, superb legal scholar and kind man, has died. Here he is in his lovely garden in Iffley, not very long ago.
Hot off the press: Michael Kremer’s and my resurrection of Margaret Macdonald.
New arrival: Final installment of my trilogy on the ripple effects of American pragmatism.
The great Gillian Welch summing up the state of America in words that will haunt. "I do believe we've broken what we never knew could break. @roberttalisse.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ht...
The Day The Mississippi Died
YouTube video by Gillian Welch - Topic
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Fabulous appointment to the British Academy!
Anna Alexandrova@annaalexandrova.bsky.social · last yr.And Hasok Chang got elected too! Hurrah
Part of my argument is that Wittgenstein was the old genius at Ramsey’s side!
Alan Richardson@alanrichardson.bsky.social · last yr.The subtitle has somehow changed to make FR Luddy’s side genius….
Why does the Swedish translation of my Ramsey biography have Ludwig on the cover??
There have been a ton of news items about American academics moving to the University of Toronto. Today's in the NYT is the best of them: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
Canada’s Trump-Fueled Brain Gain
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Tommie Shelby giving the Walter Benjamin Lectures in the Miriam Makeba Auditorium.
Otto Neurath giving a tour good social housing/gardens.
Alan Richardson describing Quine’s autobiography perfectly: On the Road if it had been told by the car. @roberttalisse.bsky.social
Giving a talk in Frankfurt at the wonderful Normative Orders Centre in Frankfurt.
Come and remember Chris Hookway if you’re in the Sheffield neighborhood! www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/events/...
The Chris Hookway Memorial Lecture
This memorial lecture is in honour of Emeritus Professor Chris Hookway, who sadly died in October 2024, see https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/news/chris-hookway-1949-2024.
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Long may you run. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...
Neil Young returns home with solo benefit concert in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes
The show before more than 2,000 people on a soggy Friday was for a historic farm belonging to Lakefield College School, not far from both Young’s cottage and his childhood home
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RIP James Till. Discoverer of stem cells. He and McCulloch should have won a Nobel Prize for it. www.legacy.com/ca/obituarie...
JAMES TILL Obituary (2025) - The Globe and Mail
View JAMES EDGAR TILL's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
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Have a talk at Humbolt U today. This is Hegel’s desk.
Such a good health journalist @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Hindsight is 2020: Did Canada get the early response to the COVID-19 pandemic right?
After five years of reflection and revisionism, let’s not forget that COVID-19 was the real disaster
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Thank you, Ian Ground, for bringing Ramsey under the care of the British Wittgenstein Society. Found the tag: @brittwittsoc.bsky.social
Cheryl Misak@cherylmisak.bsky.social · last yr.F.P. Ramsey’s grave finally has a refurbished headstone! Thank you British Wittgenstein Society for doing all the work and for allowing me to contribute in a more mundane way.
F.P. Ramsey’s grave finally has a refurbished headstone! Thank you British Wittgenstein Society for doing all the work and for allowing me to contribute in a more mundane way.
Some nice events coming up here in Sheffield: 11/3: Warrender Lecture: @leaypi.bsky.social 7/5: Book launch: Luke Ulas, 'Being Cosmopolitan' 28/5: Theory seminar: @stuartgwhite.bsky.social 2/6: Chris Hookway Lecture: @roberttalisse.bsky.social and @cherylmisak.bsky.social
Looking forward to doing my first ever joint talk, with @roberttalisse.bsky.social: the Chris Hookway Memorial Lecture, Sheffield, June 3. If you're in the UK (or from farther afield and loved Chris), do come!
Robert Talisse@roberttalisse.bsky.social · last yr.Doing a bunch of talks in the coming months. If you're around, let me know...
BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says they are removing ALL American drinks from the market. The LCBO has a monopoly on drinks distribution in Ontario. Trump just torched $1 billion of US exports. Holy shit.
Just think of all the those over the last 150 years who walked by and admired this tree - Keynes, Ramsey, Wittgenstein, Russell, and even the likes of you and me.
Anna Alexandrova@annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 2y agoStory about the feat that was the removal of the iconic 180yo beech affected by two fungi and hence no longer safe. I picked up some wood chips for my garden (hopefully without the fungi)
Wise words from the president @uoft.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Opinion: Lessons from Canada’s Nobel Prize win, and why capping graduate students will harm our economy
The University of Toronto’s Geoffrey Hinton’s 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics holds important implications for Canada’s prosperity
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Vaccines work. Masks work. Lockdowns are sometimes necessary. Access to affordable healthcare/medicines is a human right. Immigrants are generally an asset. Equality/Diversity/Inclusion policies are a good idea. Abortion is sometimes needed to save life. Keep saying these things. Truth is important.
Sander Verhaegh (ed.), American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration: Pragmatism, Logical Empiricism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory – De Gruyter, 2025 (open access) www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration
How did immigrant scholars such as Rudolf Carnap, Max Horkheimer, and Alfred Schütz influence the development of American philosophy? Why was the U.S. community more receptive to logical empiricism th...
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