Quantum Logic:
A memorial to the late Alan Bullock,
founding master of St. Catherine’s College,
Oxford, and historian of the Third Reich.
Bullock died on Groundhog Day.
From an obituary:
“Hitler: a Study in Tyranny was published in 1952 with the aphorism from Aristotle: ‘Men do not become tyrants in order to keep out the cold.’ In the same year Alan Bullock took up his appointment to the oddly-named office of ‘Censor’ of St. Catherine’s Society – a male society, constitutionally part of the University, with a handful of tutors and no residential accommodation. Ten years later it became a College….”
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Explaining what these Catherine wheels symbolize seems an appropriate task for Oxford philosophers. From the St. Catherine’s College site: “The College’s motto – Nova et Vetera (the new and the old) – sums up its unique quality among Oxford colleges.”
See also today’s previous entry, prompted by a recent MIT Press book on philosophy and quantum theory.