Posted in philosophical, lecturer, visiting, scholar, presented, lecture, repeated, joke, called, the, naive, positions, realism, General on Nov 27th, 2007 Comments Off
At least, I hope so. It did make me laugh, though that’s no guarantee of anything right now:
I will tell you a philosophical joke. Once upon a time, a visiting scholar presented a lecture on the topic: ‘How many philosophical positions are there in principle?’ ‘In principle,’ he began, ‘there are exactly 12 philosophical positions.’ […]
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Posted in professor, time, expertise, 1800, final, john, milton, cottage, distribute, parts, the, teach, paradise, wrote, lost, called, british, literature, General on Nov 9th, 2007 Comments Off
The John Milton Cottage, where Milton wrote the final parts of “Paradise Lost.”
From time to time, I teach a course called British Literature to 1800, usually with another professor or two so we can distribute expertise, keep the sections smaller, and do some tag-team lecturing at the Big Lecture Moments during the course. I’ve taught […]
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