When I came to Yale in 1966 I was the most junior of our little logic group there and Frederick Brenton Fitch was the most senior. Fitch was only one of the very unusual people I found at Yale, but he was ‘the’ logician, and I learned some very strange things from him. Fitch wasContinue reading “A memory of Frederick Fitch (re: Heaven)”
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The 1960s Connecticut Metaphysicians
In 1966, just out of graduate school, I got a job at Yale, in New Haven, Connecticut. These were the days when co-education was only just becoming a serious possibility, though not actual at Yale till 1969, after I left; so all my students were boys, mainly from private boys’ schools. I heard them discussingContinue reading “The 1960s Connecticut Metaphysicians”
Bas van Fraassen's Commonplace Book 