What is Citation and Attribution? Attribution or citation is the linking of ideas, concepts, and statements to their correct source. Attribution of quotes is an important part of all academic work. Style manuals produced by scholarly organizations such as American Psychological Association (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association), Modern Language Association (MLA Style Manual), …
Read MoreDaniel Moreno’s Santayana the Philosopher: Philosophy as a Form of Life (Bucknell University Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) is now available. The book is a translation by Charles Padrón of Moreno’s Santayana filósofo: La filosofía como forma de vida (Editorial Trotta, 2007) (favorably reviewed in Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society, No. 25, Fall 2007, …
Read MoreCall For Papers:Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society—Royce Centennial Issue In honor of the centennial of Josiah Royce’s death, the Josiah Royce Society and The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society would like to announce a call for submissions for a special issue devoted to Royce to be published in 2016. We welcome …
Read MoreThe National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which has generously supported the Santayana Edition since our beginning, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. As part of the celebration, the NEH invites you to email them at neh50@neh.gov and share how NEH grants have made a difference in your career, research, or community. Since Herman Saatkamp received …
Read MoreArthur Danto (1924–2013) wrote of Santayana’s influence on his philosophical activity: “My inspiration [for a philosophical system], in a way, was a five-volume work by the great Spanish and American philosopher, George Santayana, titled The Life of Reason. Santayana belonged to a generation earlier than mine, one in which to be a philosopher really did …
Read MoreDear Friends of Santayana, The George Santayana Society has learned the sad news that Irving Singer, Santayana scholar and professor emeritus of philosophy at MIT, died on 1 February 2015 at age 89. Details on his long and distinguished career are included in this article from MIT: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/irving-singer-obituary-0208 With regret, The Santayana Edition
Read MoreTo John McKinstry Merriam Via Santo Stefano Rotondo, 6 Rome. January 17, 1948 Dear Merriam, You ask me to write you, for your Class Luncheon, something about the political state of things in the world, and you tell me what the Marshall plan is. I know all about that and the views current here (I …
Read MoreFROM JOSE BELTRAN AND DANIEL MORENO: Apreciados colegas: Lamentamos comunicar la triste noticia del fallecimiento de Manuel Garrido Jiménez (Granada-1925) el pasado 8 de enero en Madrid. A los muchos méritos de una dilatada e infatigable trayectoria académica y cultural, se suma el de haber sido el principal referente de los estudios sobre Santayana en …
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