Graeme Hunter

Graeme Hunter teaches philosophy at the University of Ottawa.

Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.

Graeme Hunter

Articles by Graeme Hunter

  • The Deformation of Reformation

    Convivium reviewer Graeme hunter, after reading John rist's Augustine Deformed: love, Sin and Freedom in the Western Moral Tradition, explains why you shouldn't

    Even if we are prepared to entertain the claim that the last 1,600 years have been nothing but a sorry history of moral decline, why should we consent to accompany Rist on the 400 pages of penitential pilgrimage from Augustinian probity to secularist depravity, which he somehow thinks he has to infl...

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  • Gambolling with Galileo

    Graeme Hunter says the world needs a good book on Galileo. Lawrence Lipking's What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution is too mad a gambol to qualify

    Lipking's enigmatic book closes with a final riddle: "The meaning of modernity and the ways that modern people define themselves depend on the Scientific Revolution The penultimate chapter concerns priority disputes between Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke in connection with the invention of the "Syste...

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