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Cheryl Misak
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Philosopher, Univ of Toronto

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Cheryl J. Misak is a Canadian philosopher who works in pragmatism, the history of analytic philosophy, and bioethics. She is a University Professor at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in intellectual and cultural history. In 2011, Misak served as provost of the University of Toronto, president of the Charles S. Peirce Society. In December 2020, Misak became the interim director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. .. more

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · 26d
Bill Twining, superb legal scholar and kind man, has died. Here he is in his lovely garden in Iffley, not very long ago.

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 28
Oxford Pragmatism, discounted.

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 27
Lovely review. I look forward to reading the book. At first glance, I was sure that was you on the deck!

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 27
Wow! That pic is a keeper!

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 27
A little bit of feel-good in a shitty world.

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 27
Thanks. It’s one of the most rewarding projects I’ve been involved in.

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 26
Hot off the press: Michael Kremer’s and my resurrection of Margaret Macdonald.

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 18
@huwprice.bsky.social, you are a direct cause of this book!

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 12
Wow!

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 8
Thanks for the kind words, David!

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 7
Thanks!

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 7
You should read it in Oxford, as you read Cambridge Pragmatism in Cambridge!

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 7
New arrival: Final installment of my trilogy on the ripple effects of American pragmatism.

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 3
The great Gillian Welch summing up the state of America in words that will haunt. "I do believe we've broken what we never knew could break. @roberttalisse.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ht...
The Day The Mississippi Died
YouTube video by Gillian Welch - Topic
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Oct 6
“A philosopher of ordinary language had brought his limpid vernacular to bear on problems of formal logic.”

The best opening line in the history of philosophy book reviewing? Quine on Strawson.

www.jstor.org/stable/2251091
Mr. Strawson on Logical Theory on JSTOR
W. V. Quine, Mr. Strawson on Logical Theory, Mind, Vol. 62, No. 248 (Oct., 1953), pp. 433-451
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Nov 20
What or who killed Frank Ramsey? A brilliant philosopher dies aged just 26 while preparing a treatise on the nature of truth. Why he died is a medical mystery almost a century old, which kept five professors (medicine & philosophy) amused for months. Enjoy!
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Nov 26
Am increasingly getting requests to send references I’m writing to the candidate so they can include it with their application. I know it cuts down admin but it’s awful. References are already degraded. How can anyone possibly take seriously a reference that is so open?

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Jan Kandiyali @jkandiyali.bsky.social · Sep 26
Very nice obituary in The Guardian of my teacher and friend Bob Stern, written by another one of his students Josh Forstenzer.

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Robert Stern obituary
Other lives: Professor at Sheffield University who was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation
www.theguardian.com