On the C-SPAN Networks: Crispin Sartwell is a Visiting Associate Professor for Political Science in the Dickinson College with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1998 ...

A Dickinson College philosophy professor has been placed on leave, following several blog posts that accuse philosophy professors at other schools of plagiarizing his work. Crispin Sartwell is still a ...

Iam a pro-choice atheist. But I support a regulation, recently promulgated by the Bush administration, that would cut federal funding to nearly 600,000 hospitals, clinics, health plans, doctors’ ...

If one were to read through the prefaces and first paragraphs of the canonical works of Western philosophy, one might assume the discipline’s primary question to be this: What makes us humans so much ...

Dickinson College suspended an associate philosophy professor after he accused two other academics of plagiarism. But the professor, Crispin Sartwell, claims he was also kicked off campus because he ...

Re “Hell Hath No Fury Like Girlstyle,” Commentary, Dec. 30: Crispin Sartwell predicts that men will continue to rape and pillage the world through war as long as they can. He suggests that perhaps the ...

There are many ways to assess a new presidency. We might consult approval ratings or list legislative successes. We could tote up gaffes and missteps. Or we could take the current, wildly popular ...

SARTWELL ON RORTY....Crispin Sartwell, in an op-ed piece about Richard Rorty, starts out with this: It's hard for non-philosophers to understand how seriously philosophers take their own questions, ...

Re “Why We Worship the Irrational (and Katie Holmes),” Commentary, June 16: Crispin Sartwell and the Los Angeles Times have utterly wasted 21 column inches of space saying nothing of value about ...

CRISPIN SARTWELL teaches art and art history at Dickinson College. His latest book is "Six Names of Beauty." IN MANY ARTS, such as painting, poetry, woodworking and arrogance, Americans have made ...