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 ...

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 ...

CRISPIN SARTWELL teaches in the art and art history department at Dickinson College. RICHARD RORTY, who died last week at age 75, became the best-known philosopher writing in English by becoming the ...

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, ...

Crispin Sartwell teaches political philosophy at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. I once worked in a philosophy department in which one of the professors was active in NAMBLA, the controversial ...

Crispin Sartwell is the author of "End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History." One of the main activities of philosophy in the 20th century was the declaration of its own demise.

Re “Graffiti Gets Philosophical,” Commentary, Aug. 25: Crispin Sartwell misses one very important point in his commentary on graffiti. The distinction between advertising and graffiti may indeed be ...

Crispin Sartwell, an associate professor of philosophy at Dickinson College, was placed on temporary leave Friday after accusing others of plagiarism on his personal blog, and, he says, because he ...

Crispin Sartwell teaches philosophy at the Maryland Institute College of Art. “No child left behind”: The first time I heard that phrase, I think, it was emerging from the mush-mouth of Elizabeth Dole ...

Crispin Sartwell teaches philosophy at the Maryland Institute College of Art and writes an opinion column for Creators Syndicate. In some cases, the richness of an object is inversely proportional to ...

Crispin Sartwell teaches philosophy at the Maryland Institute College of Art. E-mail: mindstorm @pipeline.com. “If I had it to do over again, I’d just let it rip,” Gore told a private gathering of ...