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Before Feminism – and After!
Before Feminism – and After! Lately, I’ve been reading When Men Were the Only Models We Had, by Carolyn Heilbrun. It’s a memoir on coming of age as an intellectual woman before feminism. As a graduate student in Columbia University’s … Continue reading →
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Should the Dead Know Their Place?
Should the Dead Know Their Place? What are the dead up to? Are they just nonexistent? Many philosophers believe that and most would rather be annihilated than wrong. Are they sleeping? After the great bloodbath of the American Civil War, … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Hamilton" the musical, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "What Ayer Saw When He Was Dead", afterlife communication, American Civil War, Applied Ethics, Authenticity, Bertrand Russell, citing philosophers, college jocks, counterproductive therapy, death as sleep, defamation, duties to the dead, Existential Analysis, Founding Fathers, Francis Miles Finch's "The Blue and the Gray”, ghost stories, ghosts, good writing, gossip, Hamilton Awareness Society, Henry James, Jane Robert's The After Death Journal of an American Philosopher: the World View of William James, lean prose, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, Ludwig Binswanger, mediums, mediumship, naturalism, no way out, novelists, philosophical stylists, political rivals, posterity, power of rumor, pragmatism, psychologial conventions, purple prose, reductionist explanation, reputation, restoring reputation, ruined reputation, scholarly citation, scholarly protocol, silencing, skepticism, spiritual good manners, spiritualism, Stephen F. Knott's Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth, stereotyping, suicide, the afterlife, the dead, the last word, the paranormal, therapy, Thomas Jefferson, unacademic methods, William James
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