A movie evening is coming up soon at the Morrin Centre in Quebec City: a presentation of The Blinding Sea
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Nature is the source of many of the stories we tell, for better or worse. I have long seen the
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Something happened along the way, between film lecture/screenings at Berkeley, University College London, Université Paris Cité, and the universities of
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One of the core values of Western civilization is the dualism of soul and body. This value goes back at
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Life has taught me to watch what people do more than simply to listen to what they say. I have
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I am reminded, in reading Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur and Charles Taylor recently, of what I would call “the composite
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I wrote a blog recently – On the Shoulders of Giants – about the way academics particularly in Liberal Arts
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Today we take for granted the existence of a time continuum including a unique past, a unique present and a
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I often think of Wisdom as Sophia, not a goddess exactly, but rather a symbolic character representing or embodying Philosophy.
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I am very struck, in reading The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor, to see a flawed assumption that colours
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Several years ago, I developed an undergraduate History course for a university in upstate New York. The course was based
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There is nothing quite like taking up a favourite book again, and entering the subjective world of the characters. Once
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