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I thought of Archimedes.(Space, Time and the Categories: Lectures on Metaphysics, 1949-1950)(Book review)

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Space, Time and the Categories: Lectures on Metaphysics 1949-1950, by John Anderson, edited by Creagh Cole; Sydney University Press, 2007, $29.95.

 
   I was sittin' on a hard bench 
      Listenin' to Professor Ryle 
   I was sittin' on a hard bench 
      Gettin' nouns and verbs from Ryle 
   And the thought came flashin' through my mind 
      "John's got him beat by a mile". 
   O those Sydney blues. 
 
--"Sydney Blues", composed by John Anderson, 
about Oxford philosophers 

ONE OF MY MOST insistent memories of John Anderson's lectures on Metaphysics in 1949 has a dash of the Cold War in it. The course was on Samuel Alexander's Space, Time and Deity, ...

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