{"id":7656,"date":"2020-03-03T10:48:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T10:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7656"},"modified":"2020-03-03T10:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T10:48:31","slug":"remembering-sidney-morgenbesser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/03\/03\/remembering-sidney-morgenbesser\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Sidney Morgenbesser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of Sidney Morgenbesser this morning. \u00a0He was the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy\u00a0at Colombia and famous for pithy summaries. \u00a0A Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/sidney-morgenbesser-5cz8gg8qfvm\">obituary<\/a> said that he had\u00a0the analytical acuity of Spinoza and the blunt wit of Groucho Marx. \u00a0On being asked to describe his job, he replied: \u00a0\"<em>You make a few distinctions. You clarify a few concepts. It\u2019s a living<\/em>.\" \u00a0Indeed.<\/p>\n<p>It was Sussex's admirable philosopher, Kathleen Stock, who reminded me of Morgenbesser. \u00a0She was quoted in today's Times saying: \"Concepts aren't umbrellas or shelters for whoever wants to come in \u2013 that's not what concepts do. \u00a0They're cognitive tools.\" \u00a0Indeed, again.<\/p>\n<p>Stock was commenting on the egregiousness of Leicester University's take on International Womxn's Day.\u00a0 Enough said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of Sidney Morgenbesser this morning. \u00a0He was the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy\u00a0at Colombia and famous for pithy summaries. \u00a0A Times obituary said that he had\u00a0the analytical acuity of Spinoza and the blunt wit of Groucho Marx....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}