Dibs and dobs

One of the downsides to being old is that your favourite teachers die. I learned most of what I know about the Empiricists, in particular John Locke, from a book by C. B. Martin, who passed away recently. Hat tip to Leiter. I didn't know he spent so much time in Australia.

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The internet filter issue is gathering speed. A good criticism is made by Argosy about the failure of internet filtering in Pakistan and China.

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This is very sad.

I have Martin's The Mind In Nature (2008) right next to me as I read this. I picked it up from my library at my university the day before he died--last Wednesday.

So far, this is an interesting, austere book--much inside to be admired and fruitfully studied. If the publication was anything like the man, what interesting details can you give us about him, John?

Mourning together,

BR

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