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Re:Enlightenment retweeted
21 Mar 2025
#ArticleSnapshot📸: Clifford Siskin's "The Advancement of Knowledge Now" examines Information: A Historical Companion and asks, "Why is a volume that offers so much of value so unattuned to issues of advancement?"
Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith.12371
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19 May 2023
Happy Birthday David! @DavidDeutschOxf And thanks for our collaborations over the years, including thersa.org/events/2015/10/op… and youtube.com/watch?v=01C3a4fL…
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Re:Enlightenment retweeted
19 Apr 2023
It's hard to believe that this moment has arrived...but my book on Mozart is now available for pre-order! @UChicagoPress
amazon.com/Mozart-Performer-…
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Re:Enlightenment retweeted
30 Sep 2022
Down to @WigtownBookFest today and looking forward to giving Magnusson Lecture tomorrow @YaleBooks
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Re:Enlightenment retweeted
16 Apr 2022
A very nice copy for collectors- the saltire and muskets on the cover are of course historically accurate. For those just wanting the text, @OUPHistory are bringing out in paperback in July @theAliceRoberts @TanjaBueltmann @LandOfHistory @HistoryScotland @GreshamCollege
16 Apr 2022
The Battle of Culloden ended #OnThisDay in 1746. Professor Murray Pittock delves deep into the cultural legacy and interpretation of Culloden in his book, which joins Folio's Great Battles series with artwork by @GeoffGrandfield on the cloth binding. foliosociety.com/culloden.ht…
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Re:Enlightenment retweeted
26 Dec 2021
The world is indeed magic #smbc #hiveworks smbc-comics.com/comic/wizard… But not even remotely magic enough. Even the bare minimum—to eliminate physical suffering—is still a work in progress.
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Re:Enlightenment retweeted
30 Nov 2021
Deutsch’s honour formed part of the wider 2021 Institute of Physics awards, which recognize everyone from early-career scientists and teachers to technicians and subject specialists ow.ly/gHju50GZtJL
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4 Jul 2021
One of our founding members, William St Clair, has passed away. He was a knowledge worker like no other, breaking new ground in multiple fields (history of the book/Greece/slavery) during and after a distinguished career in government service in the UK.
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4 Jul 2021
He was also a champion of open access--starting Open Book Publishers--and an early advocate of repatriating cultural property--driving the debate over the Elgin Marbles. And he did drive hard in all that he did--but was he was also a profoundly kind man. We will miss him.
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Re:Enlightenment retweeted
17 Dec 2020
#ArticleSnapshot📌
In "Enlightenment, Information, and the Copernican Delay: A Venture into the History of Knowledge," Clifford Siskin "focuses on the changing interrelations of information and knowledge from the seventeenth century to the present day in order to . . .
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26 May 2020
The long-delayed video of David Deutsch's session on "AI in the History of Knowledge" with Professor Clifford Siskin for the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence is now available: reenlightening.org/rexclusiv…
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29 Apr 2020
"Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists. To be an optimist you don’t have to ignore all the many problems we create; you just have to imagine improving our capacity to solve problems." kk.org/thetechnium/68-bits-o…
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7 Apr 2020
Prince Charles reads poem extract in tribute to Wordsworth express.co.uk/videos/6147633…
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18 Mar 2020
For those awaiting the video of David Deutsch's talk and discussion in Cambridge with Clifford Siskin--the raw files have audio lag problems that we are trying to fix. We'll let you know when it is ready.
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