[Later this week, we’ll be moving my younger son Kyle into his first-year dorm at Michigan. So this week, through proud Dad tears, I’ll share a handful of UMichigan contexts, leading up to a special post on some of Kyle’s plans there!]
I couldn’t
dedicate a weeklong series to the University of Michigan without highlighting
my other favorite member of its community, my uncle Peter
Railton. Peter is just 15 months younger than his oldest brother, my late Dad
Steve Railton (they also have two younger siblings, my uncle Mark and aunt
Janet), and so for me he will always be first and foremost a wonderful reminder
of so much of what I love about my Dad as well. But Peter is also one of our most important philosophers,
not only academically but also in our public conversations—never more so than
in his justifiably famous 2015 Dewey
Lecture on his lifelong struggle with depression. I’m honored to call him
my uncle, and very excited that Kyle will be joining him in the Michigan
community!
Special
post this weekend,
Ben
PS. What
do you think?
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