Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that Dr. Ryan Muldoon is co-editor of its new book series, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Dr. Muldoon, Associate Professor and Director of the ...

Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming history, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60, is organised around anecdotes rather than arguments. Krishnan is interested not only in ...

A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford 1900–1960, by Nikhil Krishnan (Random House, 400 pp., $28.99) The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary ...

John Lloyd Ackrill, philosopher and classical scholar: born Reading, Berkshire 30 December 1921; Assistant Lecturer in Logic, Glasgow University 1948-49; University Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy, ...

Oxford University Press has announced the publication of Just Policing, a new book by Jake Monaghan, PhD, UB Philosophy Alum. He was recently appointed assistant professor, tenure track, at the ...

The influence of World War II on philosophical thinking is the focus of today's discussion as Chris Harding explores the years when the University of Oxford hosted one of the most distinctive and ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming history, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford ...

In the 20th century an unfortunate gulf opened up in philosophy between the “continental” and “analytic” schools. Even if you’ve never studied the subject, you might well have heard of this one split.

“W ork should not be discontinued on the sounding of sirens.” So read a notice on the first page of The Oxford Magazine on November 21, 1940, just over a year into World War II. Sirens, in that ...