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William Rowan Hamilton died on 2 September 1865; Franz Neumann on 2 September 1954. One sought the ground of algebra in Kant's intuition of 'pure time'; the other argued that Nazi Germany was not, in fact, a state at all. Two deaths on the same date ask the same question from different places: what holds a structure up?
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At the end of August the American Philosophical Association gathered philosophy teachers for a two-day forum called 'The Examined Algorithm'. The question beneath the discussion is not cheating: in philosophy, is writing the record of thought, or is it thought itself?
The American Philosophical Association has chosen Kit Fine to deliver the 2027 Nicholas Rescher Prize Lecture. The decision points not to one man but to the fortunes of a field: metaphysics, declared meaningless for much of the twentieth century, is back at the centre of analytic philosophy.
The 5th World Congress on Logic and Religion meets in Vancouver from 23 to 27 September. Alongside the classical debates in theology, the programme sets artificial intelligence, epistemic coherence and traditions from Jainism to China. One question runs through all of it: under what conditions can a person believe rationally?
The fifth conference of the Italian network for the philosophy of mathematics runs from 9 to 11 September at the University of Bologna. Three headings: applicability, ontology and reasoning. One keynote goes straight at the field's oldest problem: do mathematical objects have a nature?
He wrote about madness, illness, crime and sexuality, but he asked a single question: how does a human being make himself a subject, and how does power operate while he does it? Foucault's real legacy is not his books but a habit of suspicion — one an age of digital surveillance needs more than ever.
Iulia Nistor's new book treats horror films not as a genre to be catalogued but as a means of philosophical thought. Her question is why anyone should choose to watch the thing that frightens him. The answer runs from Aristotle's catharsis to Kant's sublime and Kristeva's abject.
The annual doctoral prizes of the philosophy department at the London School of Economics answer a question most academic prizes leave alone: what exactly is a thesis good at? The stated criteria — originality, technical competence and interdisciplinary contribution — give young researchers a plain map.
