Comments on: Celebrating the completion of The New History of Western Philosophy

By: Hugh E. Gale

Hugh E. Gale — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:34:17 +0000

To accompany John Gavin’s remarks on Lord Russell:
“…was mostly married but perhaps only intermittently happy.” And almost always on the prowl.

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Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:30:45 +0000

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By: JOHN GAVIN

JOHN GAVIN — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:00:37 +0000

Descartes was of course only a bachelor in a technical sense-he had a mistress who bore him a daughter.
Bertrand Russell was mostly married but perhaps only intermittently happy

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:34:47 +0000

The van should be Van, that’s all – I think he was called Van Quine by familiars, Van being the first name.

By: John Cowan

John Cowan — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:31:19 +0000

“van Quine”? Something went wrong there; of course it should be “Willard van Orman Quine”.

The remark about Russell and Copleston reminds me of A.E. Housman’s famous remark: “This great college [Trinity], of this ancient university [Cambridge], has seen some strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk and Porson sober. And here am I, a better poet than Porson, and a better scholar than Wordsworth, somewhere betwixt and between.”