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Harry Frankfurt, professor of philosophy, emeritus, renowned for his scholarship on free will and moral responsibility, died from a number of causes, including congestive heart failure, at a care facility in Santa Monica, California, on July 16. He was 94.
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Refusing to talk about himself was not a moral attitude, nor a posture of proud withdrawal, but a novelistic rejection of the despotism of the media
Freud doing cocaine. Psychologist William James experimenting with nitrous oxide. A new history tells of the Romantic rebels who first sampled psychoactive substances.
How to teach responsibly in today’s highly polarized political climate. My first academic job, a one-year replacement position, meant that my office’s bookshelves were already lined with books and journals before I moved in. One stood out: A 1974 issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, entitled 20th Century Classics Revisited.
These 19th century doctors and scientists experimented with drugs such as hashish, cocaine and chloroform. For some, it led to trouble. For others, it resulted in remarkable discoveries.