Assistant professors as ephemera
January 2nd, 2010
Whatever happened to logician James Dickoff, who was at the Yale School of Nursing back in the 1960s, and who translated Antoine Arnauld’s The Art of Thinking: The Port Royal Logic as well as producing some rather radical (heh!) work about “situation-producing” theories being more important than “explanation-producing” ones? I know that his co-author Patricia James eventually retired years later as professor emerita of philosophy at Kent State, but whatever happened to him? I tried the Yale School of Nursing without much success: all they could offer were some of his nursing-related publications, which I already knew about. I often say that good theories can outlive their theorists, but I’m not sure that I meant it like this!
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