Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Entrance to the Bodleian Library school of philosophy, Oxford. Walid Nohra/Shutterstock Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming ...

Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming history, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60, is organised around anecdotes rather than arguments. Krishnan is interested not only in ...

“One may as well begin with Socrates.” So opens Nikhil Krishnan’s “A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960.” Observe how that sentence conveys a certain offhand ...

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The influence of World War II on philosophical thinking is the focus of today's discussion as Chris Harding explores the years when the University of Oxford hosted one of the most distinctive and ...

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