Pyrrho is said to have been run over by a chariot he doubted the existence of.
When Labs dies I want Ogged to be there next to him, so he can shout "Pacing!"
Barthes was hit by a laundry truck.
Nietzsche was driven crazy by a horse who stood under his window and played "Helter Skelter" backwards.
John Dewey started eating paint chips in his late thirties. Everybody thought he would get lead poisoning but instead he choked on one.
"Thereupon" in death no. 3 should be "whereupon," I believe.
No he is not.
Well, it seems he is now.
Bertrand Russell is said to have been run over by a Volkswagen Beetle he doubted the existence of.
Bertrand Russell is said to have been run over by every Volkswagen Beetle he ever doubted the existence of, arranged in succession by color, like shirts at goodwill.
I thought this post was going to link to this list.
Hume was said to have choked on a fish bone and died. The cause of his death remains unknown.
The Foucault one is pretty lame, it must be said. Couldn't he have included Archimedes, on natural philosophy grounds?
Hume was said to have choked on a fish bone and died. The cause of his death remains unknown.
Were his remains not ex-humed?
No he is not.
Take it up with Calvin Normore. It's obviously apocryphal, if that's the beef...
17. just terrible, heebie. Did you read today's Pearls?
Heisenberg either died in Germany on February 1st, 1976 or in Munich sometime during the early part of that year.
Diogenes Laertius reports a biographical tradition according to which Pyrrho was indifferent to the dangers of wagons, cliffs, and dogs (oh my!), but adds that his friends used to follow him around to keep him safe.
Half of these if not more are quite obviously heart attacks -- "indigestion", my arse. A disappointing list.
I was positive boethius was going to be on there.
The favorite philosopher of nearly all U.S. presidential candidates was crucified by the Romans in Judea under the reign of Pontius Pilate.
you'd have thought Empedocles would have got a mention, too.
I just learned, via The Passenger, that Gaudi (not a philosopher) got hit by a bus.
29: me-OW.
Wow! I thought you were long gone. Had not heard from you in a long while.