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171:, first editing and commissioning in the General Books Department, then commissioning academic books as Senior Editor, Political and Social Studies. At OUP in 1980, inspired by Isaiah Berlin's insistence on the crucial role of individual thinkers in the history of ideas, he founded the Past Masters series (now absorbed into the Very Short Introductions series). His wish to publish a work of popular philosophy,
212:(I.B.Tauris) looks back over his long labours of love with fondness, a fine dry wit and a light salting of justified irritation at those entrusted with Berlin’s posthumous affairs. The second part consists of Hardy’s own philosophical response to Berlin’s theories on matters such as plurality, religious belief and our shared human nature. A wonderful book on a wonderful subject.'
204:. He has (co-)edited eighteen volumes of Berlin's writings (plus new editions of thirteen of these volumes), as well as a four-volume edition of Berlin's letters, and two books and a pamphlet about Berlin. In 2018 he published a memoir of his work with and on Berlin. Reviewing the book for 'Best Books of 2018' in the
197:, though a towering intellectual figure at the time of his death, was at one stage not regarded as having published very extensively. Hardy's research revealed that Berlin had published well over 150 pieces by the late 1970s. By 2023 Hardy's online list of Berlin's publications had grown to almost 500 items.
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Mallinson, an eccentric Oxford clergyman with whom he lodged for seven years. He published this work under his own imprint (Robert Dugdale). While still a student, Hardy also composed a number of musical pieces, which he published
179:, was not endorsed by OUP. This was the subject of Malcolm's landmark legal action against OUP for breach of contract. Hardy's account of this episode is told in his review of Malcolm's book about the case. Hardy has been a Fellow of Wolfson College since 1990 (an Honorary Fellow since 2015).
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186:, came to know him well, and became his executor. When Magee died in 2019, he organised a celebration of his life at Keble College, Oxford (where Magee was an undergraduate), which was recorded on film. A shortened version of the film may be viewed online.
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Wilkinson. They separated in 2004, and divorced in 2012. They have two children, Ellen (b. 1983) and Michael (b. 1985). Hardy married Mary Merry in 2013, and now lives with her in
152:, where he wrote a BPhil thesis in the philosophy of mind entitled 'Subjective Experiences', later expanded into a doctoral thesis entitled 'Subjective Experience'. It was at Wolfson that Hardy met Wolfson's then President,
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