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John Locke's Lost Memoir June 25, 2021
John Locke is regarded today as one of England’s greatest philosophers, an Enlightenment thinker known as the “father of liberalism”. But a previously unknown memoir attributed to one of his close friends paints a different picture – of a vain, lazy ...
Flesh-and-Blood Descartes August 24, 2018
In the early 1630s, the French artist Simon Vouet, recently named premier peintre to the court of Louis XIII, produced a series of pastel portraits, probably commissioned by the King himself. One of these drawings, now in the Louvre, depicts a man in...
Philosophy Is Dead June 22, 2018
Back in the 1970s, Raymond Geuss was a young colleague of Richard Rorty in the mighty philosophy department at Princeton. In some ways they were very different: Rorty was a middle-class New Yorker with a talent for reckless generalization, whereas Ge...
