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    SEEING CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE LIKE A STATE
    Eraldo Souza dos Santos
    • 11 min
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    SEEING CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE LIKE A STATE

    "To see civil disobedience like an activist is to see civil disobedience as a decolonizing praxis."
    RATIONALITY IS ME
    Jason Blakely
    • 11 min
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    RATIONALITY IS ME

    "In Pinker’s tale the rational, technocratic, liberal middle is a kind of virtuous and beleaguered minority."
    EMBRACING RETRIBUTIVISM
    Leo Zaibert
    • 47 min
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    EMBRACING RETRIBUTIVISM

    Gregg Caruso’s Rejecting Retributivism is a resolute and wide-ranging book. Since I cannot address all the material in it that deserves...
    Hopeful Ignorance
    Linsey McGoey
    • 9 min
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    Hopeful Ignorance

    Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Does being loving, whether it’s as a partner, a child or a parent, require truthfulness at all times? And if...
    The Rewilding of Philosophy
    Alexander Douglas
    • 10 min
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    The Rewilding of Philosophy

    Artwork by Joanna Borkowska When two things are distinct from each other, what makes them distinct? An odd question, perhaps, but one...
    Are We Decent Deep Down?
    David Livingstone Smith
    • 13 min
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    Are We Decent Deep Down?

    Homo sapiens are by nature a social species. Sociality – indeed, what biologists call ultrasociality – is built in to human nature. There...
    Shadows of an Alternative Present
    Matthew McKeever
    • 12 min
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    Shadows of an Alternative Present

    It’s the 20th year of the century. The world is in chaos: Europe is knitted together by financial obligations that seem to benefit few...
    On Having a Voice
    Lisa Whiting
    • 7 min
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    On Having a Voice

    “I was writing about what it means not to have a voice and making the case for the redistribution of that power.” – Rebecca Solnit ​...
    The Goods of the Earthly City
    Alexander Douglas
    • 11 min
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    The Goods of the Earthly City

    Humans are the only mortal creatures – this is a doctrine that Hannah Arendt found in the pre-Socratic Greeks. In their vision, the gods...
    Can William James Save Your Life? Maybe...
    Rebecca Buxton and Anthony Morgan
    • 11 min
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    Can William James Save Your Life? Maybe...

    Luca Upper Many philosophers are sceptical of “philosophy as self-help” type books, possibly because they resent having to stand between...
    Philosophy After the Crisis
    Vafa Ghazavi
    • 13 min
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    Philosophy After the Crisis

    In a 2016 article on “Philosophy and Ideology,” Amia Srinivasan illuminates the peril of analytic philosophy displacing a politics from...
    The Epistemologist's Moment
    Jeremy Fantl
    • 11 min
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    The Epistemologist's Moment

    "Everything is Fine" by Jacques Rival It’s our time. Or so philosophers like to think. Technological and cultural developments over the...
    Resisting the Ontological Limbo Dance
    Anthony Morgan
    • 28 min
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    Resisting the Ontological Limbo Dance

    Where, if anywhere, are we to locate the mind? Can it be pinned down like an X on a map? According to a number of highly influential...
    Idleness and Society
    Brian O’Connor
    • 10 min
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    Idleness and Society

    What was it that motivated your book on idleness? It was actually an accident that brought me to it. I have always been interested in...
    Sex and Drugs (and Ethics)
    Elizabeth Robson
    • 9 min
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    Sex and Drugs (and Ethics)

    Pixabay Shortly before Love Drugs arrived in the post, I had finished reading two bestselling books by non-philosophers that both...
    Evolving Our Trust in Science
    Naomi Oreskes
    • 11 min
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    Evolving Our Trust in Science

    An alleged UFO seen from a farm near McMinnville, Oregon, 1950. Science History Images/Alamy There’s a church across the road from my...
    Bad Faith and the Buddha
    Anthony Morgan
    • 13 min
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    Bad Faith and the Buddha

    The reclining Buddha at Bodhi Tataung (Wikimedia Commons) “People search for goodness and try to throw away evil, but they don’t study...
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