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The Limits of Empathy and Intersubjectivity
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The Limits of Empathy and Intersubjectivity

By George
March 13, 2023

In a recent blog, I mentioned that empathy and intersubjectivity remain works in progress and are never quite completed. Indeed,

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Empathy and Intersubjectivity
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Empathy and Intersubjectivity

By George
March 12, 2023

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, empathy is “the ability to imagine and understand the thoughts, perspective, and emotions of

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God and Scientific Knowledge
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God and Scientific Knowledge

By George
March 3, 2023

As a follow-up to my previous blog on the use and misuse of metaphor, in which I mention Friedrich Nietzsche’s

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The Use and Misuse of Metaphor
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The Use and Misuse of Metaphor

By George
March 1, 2023

Picture a two-year-old child at play. She puts on her five-year-old brother’s toy safety goggles, then crawls under a bed

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The Magic of Seeing
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The Magic of Seeing

By George
February 20, 2023

The feature image at the top of this blog is from the titles at the beginning of my film, as

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Rhythms of the River
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Rhythms of the River

By George
February 17, 2023

I was struck, in taking the ferry from Quebec City to Lévis last evening, how life has a different pace

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Mon pays c’est l’hiver
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Mon pays c’est l’hiver

By George
February 6, 2023

Watching the crazy Quebec Carnival canoe race yesterday, where men and women get out of their canoes, and run along

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Éblouis par la mer
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Éblouis par la mer

By George
January 25, 2023

J’ai rédigé l’article ci-dessous pour le numéro de décembre 2022 de la revue parisienne Études canadiennes (merci à la rédactrice-en-chef,

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Lévis and Quebec City in Winter
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Lévis and Quebec City in Winter

By George
November 23, 2022

I went to Lévis today, to do some archival research for upcoming writing projects. I cannot believe our luck to

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An Almost Impossible Story
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An Almost Impossible Story

By George
November 6, 2022

“An Almost Impossible Story is one of the funniest, funkiest audio-books you will ever listen to. Award-winning author George Tombs

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Autumn in Quebec City
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Autumn in Quebec City

By George
October 30, 2022

I love autumn in Quebec City, my home town. Every day brings discovery and rediscovery. The city keeps changing. There

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Straw Man Slaughter
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Straw Man Slaughter

By George
October 26, 2022

The Blinding Sea is, among other things, a biographical film. Naturally, during the research phase, I studied many biographies, and

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