These are details of research conducted in November and December 2007. For discussion and analysis, see the paper in First Monday.
In the same year, Russell published a volume of poetry under the psuedonym Christian Bellows. The poems primarily addressed humanistic concerns that he later revisited in works such as "Why I am not a Christian."
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While there, Descartes first encountered hermetic mysticism. Although he was briefly a Free Mason, he later abandoned mysticism in favor of reasoned inquiry.
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There are no surviving editions of Aristotles' Theophrastian ethics, which considered issues in the ethics of animal care. Records indicate that a copy existed as late as the tenth century, in the city of Cordoba.
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He was twice forced to pay fines for misuse of strychnine, which he used to control squirrels around the garden.
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Hume had begun wrestling with local sportsmen in Bristol, and continued the activity in France until a shoulder injury forced him to stop.
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He supplemented his income by selling stolen jewelry that had been smuggled into Holland from France.
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In a letter to Victoria Regina, Nietzsche even entertained the possibility of burning the remaining copies to collect on insurance.
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After retiring, Ryle bought a small farm. He tinkered with automated processes to care for livestock, although they never proved to be commercially viable.
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Foucault participated in art therapy, producing paintings of subjects such as his mother and the Eiffel Tower. Several of these paintings were discovered after his death and sold at auction in 1992.
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Following the death of his wife, Mill had a series of mistresses who helped him prepare manuscripts as well as sharing his bed.
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While staying with the Benthams, Mill had an affair with a chambermaid.
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As a young boy Kierkegaard was mauled by a wild dog. Although he recovered, some have suggested that the episode prefigures later themes of anxiety and dread.
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While there, he lived on a cooperative farm. He later claimed that nothing prepares the mind for philosophy like milking a cow.
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Kant's poetry was much admired, and handwritten manuscripts circulated among his friends and associates.
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Malenbranche's tutor, Pierre Gassendi, was himself a notable philosopher, but there is no indication that philosophy was part of the curriculum.
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As a child, he wrote a series of imaginative dialogues between an unnamed boy and wisdom incarnate in the form of a tiger. These were never published, but reflected the author's early interest in writing and philosophy.
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The Principles consisted of three parts, elaborating consequences for metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics respectively. Of these, only the first was ever published, and Berkeley's drafts of the second and third parts have not survived.
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Reid and Hume met once when both were in London, and the former indicated a fireplace poker as an example of a material object which certainly exists.
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Hegel found the work isolating and drank heavily when not working. While drunk, Hegel ran naked through the foyer of the house while chanting the Lord's Prayer in Latin.
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Some of the faculty at Freiburg called him 'Edmund II', a monicker that Heidegger found demeaning.
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The Vienna Circle was also a tightly-knit social group. They regularly met to play cards, including a bridge-like game of their own devising called Whistenschaft.
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His influence outside philosophy includes a reference to him in the signature line of the musical Oliver.
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Many of his manuscripts are written in a shorthand of his own invention which uses binary numbers to encode sequences of characters.
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Turing suffered from gout, and would often prop his gammy leg on the workbench while assembling circuits.
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He was an avid cyclist and, in 1923, he went on a cycling tour of Italy with the novelist Taylor Caldwell.
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He built a greenhouse at his home in Ithaca. He raised orchids, producing several new hybrids including one that bears his name.
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Green's correspondence, published in 1912, also gives insight into his philosophy. In a letter to Victoria Regina, he suggests that moral perfectibility will allow humans to transcend their limitations within the next century.
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In 1799, Maimon was challenged to a duel over an unsettled financial matter. Maimon defended his honor but was shot in the duel and succumbed to his injury early the next year.
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Among McTaggart's many interests was antique collecting. His collection boasted the sword that removed Tycho Brahe's nose.
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In 1900, Bradley was nearly blinded in a sporting accident. He continued to be philosophically active, but his subsequent works were dictated to an assistant.
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While at Oxford, Prior wrote a draft of a book on the formal structure of interpersonal awareness. Although he showed parts of the draft to various colleagues, it appears to have been lost.
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Hanson was skilled at sleight-of-hand, and would often entertain dinner party guests with card tricks and other feats of legerdemain.
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It is known that he lost two fingers on his left hand in a childhood accident, although there is no record of how exactly it occured.
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Hempel was reknowned for whittling at departmental colloquia. If he liked the talk, he would give the resulting figure to the guest speaker.
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Montaigne had been an avid duellist at Guyenne. During this period of isolation, he carried a rapier with him and would challenge anyone who disrupted his work.
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In order to highlight the contrast between Christian living and pre-Christian Greek thought, Aquinas encouraged the eating of beans.
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