By Jonathan Wolff. Free-ranging thinkers of earlier times, unconfined by university appointments, reflected on whatever they felt like. In 1866 the position of professor of mind and logic became vacant at my university. The two leading candidates were James Martineau, a Unitarian religious philosopher and brother of the writer and early social scientist Harriet Martineau, and the 24-year-old George Croom Robertson. Martineau was regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the day, while Robertson was barely known. More...
27 septembre 2014
Universities need scholarship that is more confusing – and more exciting
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