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North is north and south is south in this 19th century sea story that contended for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize last year and came out in a U.S. paperback edition last month. The novel follows the voyage of the Sincerity, a smuggling vessel that takes on a party of...
Eisenberg echoes the idea that more research is needed, quoting Carl Sagan, a famous science philosopher that "exceptional claims require exceptional evidence."
Gutmann, a distinguished political philosopher, has strong Harvard connections. She holds both a bachelor's degree and a doctorate from Harvard, and was a visiting professor at the Kennedy School of Government from 1988-1989. Her daughter, Abigail Gutmann Doyle '02, is a junior in Kirkland House.
A year later, the group's secretary wrote a second time--this time specifically to Harvard--asking incredulously if Harvard wanted to pass up this chance at enlarging their collection (The group's secretary was none other than famed philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt).
The equivocator would answer it in this way: “Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of the conditions around him, colored by his own personality.