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Cheryl Misak

@cherylmisak.bsky.social

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Philosopher, Univ of Toronto

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 28

Oxford Pragmatism, discounted.

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 27

Lovely review. I look forward to reading the book. At first glance, I was sure that was you on the deck!

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wow! That pic is a keeper!

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 27

A little bit of feel-good in a shitty world.

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks. It’s one of the most rewarding projects I’ve been involved in.

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hot off the press: Michael Kremer’s and my resurrection of Margaret Macdonald.

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 18

@huwprice.bsky.social, you are a direct cause of this book!

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 12

Wow!

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thanks for the kind words, David!

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thanks!

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 7

You should read it in Oxford, as you read Cambridge Pragmatism in Cambridge!

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 7

New arrival: Final installment of my trilogy on the ripple effects of American pragmatism.

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 3

The great Gillian Welch summing up the state of America in words that will haunt. "I do believe we've broken what we never knew could break. @roberttalisse.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ht...

The Day The Mississippi Died

YouTube video by Gillian Welch - Topic

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Jul 20

Fabulous appointment to the British Academy!

Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Jul 19

And Hasok Chang got elected too! Hurrah

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Jul 14

Part of my argument is that Wittgenstein was the old genius at Ramsey’s side!

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · Jul 14

The subtitle has somehow changed to make FR Luddy’s side genius….

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Jul 14

Why does the Swedish translation of my Ramsey biography have Ludwig on the cover??

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Jun 28

There have been a ton of news items about American academics moving to the University of Toronto. Today's in the NYT is the best of them:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

Canada’s Trump-Fueled Brain Gain

www.nytimes.com

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Jun 18

Tommie Shelby giving the Walter Benjamin Lectures in the Miriam Makeba Auditorium.

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Jun 16

Otto Neurath giving a tour good social housing/gardens.

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Jun 14

Alan Richardson describing Quine’s autobiography perfectly: On the Road if it had been told by the car. @roberttalisse.bsky.social

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Jun 13

Looking forward to joining you tomorrow!

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Jun 10

Giving a talk in Frankfurt at the wonderful Normative Orders Centre in Frankfurt.

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Jun 9

The city of Berlin, speaking truth.

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · May 29

Come and remember Chris Hookway if you’re in the Sheffield neighborhood! www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/events/...

The Chris Hookway Memorial Lecture

This memorial lecture is in honour of Emeritus Professor Chris Hookway, who sadly died in October 2024, see https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/news/chris-hookway-1949-2024.

www.sheffield.ac.uk

Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · May 24

Long may you run.
www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

Neil Young returns home with solo benefit concert in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes

The show before more than 2,000 people on a soggy Friday was for a historic farm belonging to Lakefield College School, not far from both Young’s cottage and his childhood home

www.theglobeandmail.com