The Duck of Minerva

This is the third in our series of remembrances on the late scholar Susan Sell. Professor Susan Sell was a world class scholar.  But even though one of the papers she wrote (about using ideas strategically) was very influential in my personal intellectual development, I don’t want to say something about that.  The thing I want to say about Susan is that she was the antithesis to so many of the negative tendencies that you can see in academia, while at the same time holding the highest intellectual standards.  In this way she is a personal hero to me and a model for how I...