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September 12, 2016

Metaphysics, Memory, and Dewey

I was asked to drop by my colleague’s class and hold forth on Chapter 1 of John Dewey’s text The Reconstruction of Philosophy (get the text here). Here are the recordings from those days. Had some good discussions with the folks… Continue reading

November 25, 2012

Stoic Pragmatism // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

Most of us have heard about that exemplary fool, Molière’s Monsieur Jourdain, who was astonished to discover in middle age that he had been speaking prose all his life. After perusing John Lachs’s wise and lively Stoic Pragmatism, many readers will… Continue reading

July 17, 2012

Sartre and Camus in New York – NYTimes.com

At Vassar he [Camus] gave a lecture on “The Crisis of Mankind” and was dazzled by the spectacle of “an army of long-legged young starlets, lazing on the lawn.” But he was preoccupied by what he thought of as the… Continue reading