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The first person I met when I arrived in Oxford in 1975 to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics was Isaiah Berlin. Isaiah was a personal friend of one of my professors at the University of Toronto, who had asked Isaiah if, as a personal favour, he would serve as my ‘moral tutor’. This rather quaint Oxford version of an ‘academic advisor’ turned out, in my case, to be a profoundly apt term for the role that Berlin was to play in my intellectual development.
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I am deeply indebted to Stanley Greenspan, Barbara King, and of course, Isaiah.
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Shanker, S.G. (2009). Three Concepts of Liberty. In: After Cognitivism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9992-2_13
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