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Dear Friends of the George Santayana Society, Overhead in Seville: the Bulletin of George Santayana Society has published every fall since 1983. This year’s issue will mark thirty five years of publication. We also encourage the submission of articles and other works for both this year (2017) and next (2018). Critical and historical essays on …

Dear Friends of the George Santayana Society, Greetings for 2017! This is the first of a series of letters about the George Santayana Society, its activities, and Santayana related events. Followup letters will come out over the course of the coming week. Annual meeting The George Santayana Society’s annual meeting took place on January 6, …

The new issue of Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society (Number 34, Fall 2016) is now available online for free. It features articles by Jay Bregman on “Santayana and Neoplantonism,” Tim Madigan on Santayana and Irving Singer, Daniel Pinkas on Santayana’s criticism of Henri Bergson, Nancy Ogle on “Santayana and Voice,” and Richard Rubin …

With the publication this month of the critical edition of George Santayana’s (1863–1952) Reason in Science, Book 5 of The Life of Reason by The MIT Press, the Santayana Edition has completed Volume VII of The Works of George Santayana. Five years after the first book of this volume appeared, Reason in Science becomes the …

The results of the Angus Kerr-Lawson Essay Prize are in! The winning essay is: “Metaethics for Mavericks: Santayana and Nietzsche on False Idols and True Poetry” by Dr. Diana Heney of Fordham University. Dr. Heney will be awarded $300 and will present her essay at the January 2017 Eastern APA meeting. The runner up is: …

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 …

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” …

The 2015 issue of Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society is now available HERE for online reading and downloading.

The 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 …