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News: August/September 2023

Harry Frankfurt, philosopher, has died • So has Milan Kundera, novelist and thinker • Violent attack on philosophy class — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

Stabbing in Philosophy Class

In June a philosophy class session at the University of Waterloo in Canada came to a shocking and violent end. A former student of the university entered towards the end of the Philosophy 202: Gender Issues class, taught by assistant professor Katy Fulfer, and asked her if it was a Psychology class. On being told the title of the class he smiled and pulled two knives from his rucksack, then stabbed Fulfer and two of her students. All three were hospitalized and their injuries are described as serious but not life-threatening. Another student apparently threw a chair at the attacker, who was later arrested and charged.

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