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Posted on November 18th, 2015 in NEWS by dspiech

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 …

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Posted on November 6th, 2015 in BLOG by dspiech

Recently, 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 …

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Posted on November 2nd, 2015 in NEWS by dspiech

We 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” …

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