Of Beasts and Men: Reflections on Nature Writing Workshops
This is a guest blog post by associate researcher, and Biscuit Tin philosopher, Mara-Daria...
Read MorePosted by Rachael Wiseman | Sep 17, 2020 | Writing
This is a guest blog post by associate researcher, and Biscuit Tin philosopher, Mara-Daria...
Read MorePosted by Amy Ward | Aug 4, 2020 | Diary of an Intern
Amy is a summer 2020 student intern—this is a blog about her research, reading, and work. “Man is...
Read MorePosted by Amy Ward | Jun 30, 2020 | Diary of an Intern
Amy is a summer 2020 student intern—this is a blog about her research, reading, and work. At the...
Read MorePosted by Rachael Wiseman | May 28, 2019 | Audio & video
Jane Heal FBA and Dr Rachael Wiseman discuss highlights of Anscombe’s exceptional life,...
Read MorePosted by Rachael Wiseman | Mar 24, 2019 | Audio & video
Clare was at the Royal Instite of Philosophy, presenting her paper ‘Depicting Human...
Read MorePosted by Rachael Wiseman | Mar 1, 2019 | Audio & video
Rachael was at the Royal Instite of Philosophy, presenting her paper ‘Anscombe on Brute...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Cooper | Jul 14, 2017 | Writing
Sam Cooper discusses the content of a letter sent by Anscombe to Foot, discussing Aquinas’ views on charity and justice. This post concerns the ‘abstract problem’.
Read MorePosted by Samuel Cooper | Jul 14, 2017 | Writing
Both Foot and Anscombe talk about Aquinas quite often, and both of them seem to take it for granted that Aquinas’ thought can be elucidated by thinking about it from directions provided by Wittgenstein; not just that Aquinas can be corrected or improved by the addition of a Wittgensteinian perspective, but rather that what Aquinas himself actually thought can be elucidated by looking at his work from such an angle. Both of them do this quite often, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicit, but almost always very casually, as if it is quite obvious that this is how it should be. But in what sense in Aquinas Wittgensteinian?!
Read MorePosted by Rachael Wiseman | Jun 19, 2017 | Text
Midgley wrote this essay in the mid-1950s for BBC radio. In her memoir The Owl of Minerva, she recalls:
“I wrote it because I had suddenly been struck by the fact that nearly all the famous philosophers whose lives we know about were lifelong bachelors…
Read MorePosted by Rachael Wiseman | Jun 19, 2017 | Text
by Mary Midgley Mary Midgley Considers How What Is Called Philosophy Has Changed Since She And Her Friends First Plunged Into It Changes In World-Pictures. When we four people started studying Philosophy at Oxford in the early...
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