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News: December 2015 / January 2016
Cressida Cowell wins Philosophy Now Award • Study claims religious children “less altruistic” • Can Ought Not Imply Can? — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
René Girard
René Girard, French philosopher and cultural anthropologist, died age 91 on 4 November 2015 on the campus of Stanford University, where he was Emeritus Professor of French Language, Literature & Civilization. Girard was a highly-honoured thinker whose works such as Violence and the Sacred and his final book Battling to the End: Politics, War and Apocalypse sparked widespread discussion in popular, intellectual and political arenas. He will be particularly remembered for his research into the causes of human conflict, as well as his theory of ‘mimetic desire’ concerning the role of imitation in human behaviour. Several heads of state have paid their respects, including French President François Hollande, who called Girard as “a free man and humanist whose work will leave its mark on intellectual history.”
Ought Does Not Imply Can
Waterloo University philosophers John Turri and Wesley Buckwalter have used the techniques of the social sciences to examine the connection between being morally obligated to do something and having the ability to do it.
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