Dear Dr. Tomaselli, Greetings!!We have found your article entitled “The art of being in the eighteenth century: Adam Smith on fortune, luck, and trust” online, the research is very good and I think your research may fit into our Journal of Cardiology: Open Access ISSN: 2476-230X
Question from Academia in my Inbox just now: 'Sylvana, have you coauthored a paper with Mary Wollstonecraft? Specifying your co-authors will make your citation count more accurate'.
Why must all email requests for unsolicited, unrewarded and often have unrewarding labour begin with ‘I hope you are having a wonderful summer holiday’? Must the knife be twisted?
Bringing Winstanley and the Levellers to life
@tmbejan
and John Coffey at the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought chair by
@chrisbrooke
yesterday
When you are rewarded for not having read a book when it first came out as the second revised and updated edition appears just when you are ready for it
@M_Ignatieff
Yesterday was a very sad day, but i was scheduled to give an evening talk on Adam Smith. I did and spoke of his noting our tendency to over estimate our luck and the importance of trust. Badly, I presume. A kind of Adam Smith thought police attended who would have none of it.
Tomorrow's Cambridge Centre for Political Thought's great treat: Mark Goldie on 'John Locke and Slavery' followed by Felix Waldmann's comments at the Monday Seminar,
@cambridge_cpt
'Like form, a concept is produced by overlooking what is individual and real, whereas nature knows neither forms nor concepts and hence no species, but only an 'X' which is inaccessible to us and indefinable by us', Nietzsche 'On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense'
Surreal 3 hour meeting today: a bright panel on ChatGPT's challenge to academic assessments, followed by the room being asked to write our thoughts on the risks and opportunities of different forms of testing on, wait for it, yellow and green post-it notes. Laugh or cry?
What is it about our age that everything has to be 'deeply'? No one is influenced any more without being 'deeply influenced'. Perhaps 'deeply' adds something to, say, being in love. Not sure.
Honoured that my 'Brief Reflections on dichotomies and heroism in Benjamin Constant and Max Weber' appear in the Festschrift for Biancamaria Fontana
ANNALES BENJAMIN CONSTANT 45
Congratulations to
@AHarwoodBrown
for his essay on “Government must depend for its Efficiency either on Force or Opinion.” From ‘The Colonist’s advocate’, VII. (Feb 1, 1770) runner up in the Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize competition
Congratulations to
@philtalkradio
for: PHILOSOPHY TALK WINS NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES GRANT FOR “WISE WOMEN” SERIES
The sixteen-episode series will celebrate the unsung heroines of philosophy.
@F_Waldmann
investigates the authenticity of two letters attributed to 18th C philosopher David Hume, concluding that these letters, that have since been cited by scholars in numerous publications, were forged in the twentieth century.
Take a look
#sandrineankara
just published: Reviewing women’s philosophical works during the French revolution: the case of P.-L. Roederer -
#ScholarAlerts
'Glück' means luck in German, said the man to the woman, because Frauen wissen nicht das Glück ist ein Mann der weiß was Glück bedeutet. So viel Deutsch weiß jeder, nur Frauen nicht.
On Monday Jeremy Adelman and I will discuss my forthcoming book on odious debt in Latin America
16 October at the Monday Seminar in Cambridge
@cambridge_cpt
@CamHistory
@ToynbeePrize
All welcome!
... an egalitarian impulse lacking & starkly contradicted in his later work. This will develop & build on a paper I gave
@CamGradPTIH
/
@cambridge_cpt
a few years ago (thank you again for the comments
@sylvana_st
!)
“Freud saw four or five patients in a row from 8am till 1pm, then lunched with his family precisely at 1pm. He saw several more in the afternoon until he had a late supper, and two nights a week he lectured at the university, while Wednesday evenings were reserved for ...
I wonder why they went for English: ‘Situated in a Grade II-listed manor built in 1705, Babington House is surrounded by 18 acres of English countryside in the heart of Somerset.’
Wimbledon: what is the history of the clenched fist? Should this conclude a lecture? Paper? Q&A? Contribution to a community meeting? Have I missed something?