Cheryl Misak

Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Cheryl Misak is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. She is the author of the biography Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers (Oxford University Press, 2020).

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essayPolitical philosophy

The underground university

During the Cold War, Oxford philosophers worked together to aid dissidents behind the Iron Curtain. I was one of them

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essayThinkers and theories

Pragmatism endures

Pragmatism was not eclipsed after Dewey: it has been a constant and dominant force in philosophy for nearly 100 years

Cheryl Misak & Robert B Talisse

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essayThinkers and theories

Philosophy must be useful

For Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, much of philosophy was mere nonsense. Then came Frank Ramsey’s pragmatic alternative

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ideaKnowledge

To my best belief: just what is the pragmatic theory of truth?

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