The results of the Angus Kerr-Lawson Essay Prize are in!

The winning essay is: “Metaethics for Mavericks: Santayana and Nietzsche on False Idols and True Poetry” by Dr. Diana Heney of Fordham University. Dr. Heney will be awarded $300 and will present her essay at the January 2017 Eastern APA meeting.

The runner up is: “George Santayana in the Rhetorical Tradition” by Dr. Brita Anderson of University of Pittsburgh.

Science and Values in Peirce and Dewey: A Conference in Honour of Angus Kerr-Lawson

We have the pleasure to announce the recent publication, in Spanish, of the book Pequeños ensayos sobre religión by George Santayana translated and presented by José Beltrán and Daniel Moreno (Trotta, 2015), available here.

As one reviewer has stated, “this book, [a] brilliant exercise in irony and extreme lucidity, offers an antidote against all fundamentalism” and is a new invitation to continue reading and rereading the text of Santayana, keeping alive the embers—the “Pale Fire”—of his philosophy.

The 2015 issue of Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society is now available HERE for online reading and downloading.

The Santayana Edition is very pleased to welcome Steven A. Miller, who has
taken a post-doctoral position with the Edition for the coming year.
Steven, who recently earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Southern Illinois
University, is helping with daily management and editorial tasks in the
Edition and with teaching and curriculum development in the IUPUI American
Studies Program. He has a strong background in American philosophy, having
written an excellent dissertation on community and ethical commitments in
the thought of Josiah Royce, Wilfrid Sellars, and Richard Rorty.

Steven is working with other editors to finish Reason in Science, Book
Five of The Life of Reason, Volume VII of The Works of George
Santayana. This is the final book of The Life of Reason, and we plan to
send it to The MIT Press for publication next month. Therefore,
the entire set of books of The Life of Reason should be published by
next summer.