Thanks both! Pleased you enjoyed it!

thanks Keith. (Re T.Experiments: the ch. has now been read by N.Block and D.Papineau...so I'm pretty sure it's ok! But can send if of interest!)

Yes please Keith.

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Q.87. Which philosopher wrote, "If I have a philosophy of life, it is to keep living until I drop. "

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The conversation turned to the applicants for a chair at Oxford. Sir Peter [Strawson] groaned about one applicant: “Do I really have to read his boring book?” he asked; to which Sir Freddie [Ayer] replied: “I don’t see why, he didn’t even go to a proper school.”
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Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, A Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need by David Edmonds

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Finishing reading @davidedmonds100.bsky.social ‘s excellent book on the Vienna Circle:
“At some stage two FBI men visited him at his home. To show that he was no Russian spy, [Philipp] Frank went to his bookshelf, took out a copy of Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism,

Social policy

Otto Neurath should be much better known. "May I say one word about phraseology...please do not speak of ‘experiment’, it is the very life of people at stake...and using some people as experimental material for other people is against my feelings. Let us call it a social venture. That is better."

Indeed. I’m planning to revisit this!

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Should museums return artefacts to where they came from? My Oxford colleagues have been working on a moral decision aid for cultural institutions. Link here darca.uehiro.ox.ac.uk

“For heaven’s sake, a logician should not be asked to write a history or an autobiography, unless he is a genius like Russell.” Fair point Carnap, fair point..

We’ll explain it in time

35 years later and still not explained

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