Emily Thomas

@emilytwrites

Philosopher of time, space, travel, arcane books. Associate Prof at Durham. Author of Absolute Time (2018), The Meaning of Travel (2020). Defender of armchairs.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: srpanj 2017.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    23. sij

    How did one man change the of ? Read all about McTaggart here!

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  3. prije 20 sati

    Marvellous article here from celebrating Christopher Tolkien’s of Middle-earth. I had no idea he was his father’s cartographer, nor that he worked with ...

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  4. 31. sij

    How can humans conceive non-Euclidean spaces? In a 1969 article, E. J. Craig argues we need look no further than the 'impossible' staircases of M. C. Escher. Whole page of his 'impossible constructions' here:

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  5. 30. sij

    Bertrand Russell writes that all books start with Thales, who said everything is made of water: "This is discouraging to the beginner, who, is struggling... to feel that respect for philosophy that the curriculum seems to expect." Thanks Russell!

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  6. 29. sij

    Startling article here about the of pockets on women’s clothing. Around wartime the size and number of pockets increased (a Suffragette suit boasted 6!) then shrank again afterwards - thanks

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  7. 28. sij
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  8. 28. sij

    Facts about everyone should know: May Sinclair marched with suffragettes, and once dressed up as ‘a very demure Jane Austen’. Austen was hailed as a demure rebel, a ‘genteel’ examplar promoting social change for women. Here's Sinclair and "Votes for Women" poster:

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  9. 27. sij

    Astronauts have successfully baked the first ever outer-space cookies - and they were, of course, chocolate chip:

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  10. 24. sij

    A book about the of ! What more could one's past or future self want?

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    24. sij

    Philosophers have wrangled over time for millennia, but McTaggart thought about time differently

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  12. 24. sij

    Some academic news… Australian Catholic University's new Dianoia research institute has made lots of exciting hires recently - and I’m now officially an honorary fellow. Am looking forward to visiting!

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    23. sij

    McTaggart’s philosophy of time reshaped how we perceive things in time. What if reality is timeless and changeless?

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  14. 22. sij

    Contrasting lecturing styles, for - Relaxed: sitting behind desks - Birdlike: perched on desks - Peripatetic: walking and talking - Rockstar: walking around with large microphone - Hegelian: running at students, brandishing the Sword of Truth

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  15. 21. sij

    Learned last night that Cambridge C. D. Broad tried mescaline at the grand old age of 65, and halluncinated a historic bookcase marching towards him on carved animal feet. Thanks !

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    20. sij

    . addresses the Society on how philosophers have represented time through pictures

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  17. 20. sij

    Cambridge waffles. Because .

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  18. 20. sij

    Another day, another glorious morning... just right for a few more hours in the library.

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  19. 17. sij

    Back in under an ominous sky, ready for archives...

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  20. 16. sij

    Unusual portrait of in nineteenth century book, said to be one of the “best likenesses” of him...

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