Science and Values in Peirce and Dewey: A Conference in Honour of Angus Kerr-Lawson April 25-27, 2016 This conference will bring together scholars at the intersection of pragmatism and philosophy of science to consider Peirce’s and Dewey’s contributions to the study of science and values. Over three days, scholars will offer individual papers and panel/roundtable …
Read MoreRecently, while going through George Santayana’s letters for the Letters in Limbo section featured daily on our home page, I found an ambiguously dated letter that, to my eyes, seemed suspect. The letter was to Santayana’s longtime friend Charles Augustus Strong, and it mentioned one of their mutual acquaintances. It’s a fairly typical, brief Santayana …
Read MoreWe have the pleasure to announce the recent publication, in Spanish, of the book Pequeños ensayos sobre religión by George Santayana translated and presented by José Beltrán and Daniel Moreno (Trotta, 2015), available here. As one reviewer has stated, “this book, [a] brilliant exercise in irony and extreme lucidity, offers an antidote against all fundamentalism” …
Read MoreThe Santayana Edition is very pleased to welcome Steven A. Miller, who has taken a post-doctoral position with the Edition for the coming year. Steven, who recently earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Southern Illinois University, is helping with daily management and editorial tasks in the Edition and with teaching and curriculum development in the …
Read MoreThe critical edition of Reason in Art, Book 4 of The Life of Reason, Volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, is now available from The MIT Press. The book features an introduction by James Gouinlock and a scholarly apparatus including a list of variations found in the posthumously published one-volume edition of The Life of Reason. Our next publication …
Read MoreThe Santayana Edition has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions grant for the period October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2018. The very generous award will be used to fund Santayana Edition staff and graduate student interns as well as to provide IT and production resources. During the grant period, we …
Read MoreThe George Santayana Society is pleased to offer a prize for outstanding scholarly writing in honor of Professor Angus Kerr-Lawson. The prize is offered in tribute to the outstanding contributions made by Kerr-Lawson to Santayana scholarship in Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society. The invitation is for any scholar not more than …
Read MoreIn articulating his philosophy, George Santayana drew on spiritual and philosophical traditions of Europe, Asia, and the United States. It is relatively easy to begin looking into the influence of his teachers William James and Josiah Royce since he corresponded with them, wrote essays about them, and remembered them in his autobiography. His discussions of …
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