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Yale professor emeritus of philosophy Ruth Barcan Marcus, a pioneer in the field of logic and metaphysics who gave her name to a groundbreaking formula of symbolic logic and was a key figure in philosophical debates, has died at the age of 90.Ruth Barcan...
Seyla Benhabib, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, has been awarded the 2012 Leopold Lucas Prize in recognition of her study of the coherence of civil societies under strain from the pressures of globalization, migration, and...
Six Yale researchers are among 126 recipients of the Sloan Research Fellowships, given to early-career scientists whose achievements identify them as rising stars.“Today’s Sloan Research Fellows are tomorrow’s Nobel Prize winners,” said Dr. Paul L. Joskow...
YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books may forward publishers’ book descriptions to us by email.Queequeg’s...
Early in 1842 , on the eve of his 30th birthday, Charles Dickens made his first trip to America. The author at that time of “Pickwick Papers,” “Oliver Twist,” “Nicholas Nickleby,” and “The Old Curiosity Shop, ” the young novelist was celebrated on both...
YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books may forward publishers’ book descriptions to us by email.A Field Guide to...