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195: Lincoln as a Philosopher
582: Can A.I. Help Us Understand Babies?
531: The Mysterious Timelessness of Math
533: Frege and the Language of Reason
337: Simone de Beauvoir
579: Impossible Worlds
525: Nonduality and the Oneness of Being
578: In Awe of Wonder
529: Microaggressions
577: Mary Astell
576: Zhuangzi – Being One with Ten Thousand Things
528: Referring to the World – Ken's Final Work
575: Elisabeth of Bohemia
524: The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle
574: Can Architecture Be Political?
523: Disinformation and the Future of Democracy
520: What Is Masculinity?
573: Are We Living in a Simulation?
453: Adorno and the Culture Industry
568: Summer Reading List 2023
93: Georg Hegel
572: Weird Wants
571: Making a Better World
519: What Has Replaced Freud?
570: Hypatia of Alexandria
514: The Arts For All?
517: Democracy By Numbers
518: The Rhetoric of Big Tech
515: Minds and Matter
513: Are We All to Blame?
213: Søren Kierkegaard
564: The Power of Prediction
511: Why We Hate
512: What's in a Game?
543: Why Poetry Matters
510: Science and Skepticism
561: The 2023 Dionysus Awards
210: The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin
509: Citizenship and Justice
508: The Merits of Meritocracy
507: Can Streets Disciminate?
558: The Examined Year – 2022
211: How Relevant Is Jesus?
551: Effective Altruism
506: The Ethical Jerk
499: (Why) Money Matters
503: Covid Conundrums and Moral Dilemmas
504: Pet Ethics
498: Philosophy and the Superhero
496: Is the Self an Illusion?
378: Heidegger
491: Hobbes and the Ideal Citizen
548: Summer Reading List – Banned Books Edition
495: Death of the Sentence
542: The 2022 Dionysus Awards
505: Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World
494: Comedy and the Culture Wars
547: The Changing Face of Antisemitism
396: Jean-Paul Sartre
490: Conscious Machiness
546: The Scandalous Truth About Memoir
489: The Allure of Authoritarianism
482: J.S. Mill and the Good Life
492: Sanctuary Cities
488: Explanation at Its Best
485: The Doomsday Doctrine
486: Reading the Troubled Past
484: Is Postmodernism Really to Blame for Post-Truth?
437: Polyamory
477: Hacking the Brain – Beyond the Five Senses
371: The Art of Non-Violence
537: The Examined Year – 2021
481: The Limits of Tolerance
480: What Is Religious Belief?
479: Is Philanthropy Bad for Democracy?
237: The Occult Philosophy
476: Immigration and Multiculturalism
177: Gandhi as a Philosopher
474: What Do We Owe Future Generations?
478: Authority and Resistance
526: (End of) Summer Reading List 2021
530: The Ethics of Awesomeness
473: Envy – Vice or Virtue?
469: The Creative Life
521: The 2021 Dionysus Awards
471: Foreign Aid – or Injury?
527: Your Brain on Literature
470: Foucault and Power
468: Does Reputation Matter?
467: Can Reason Save Us?
465: The Psychology of Cruelty
464: The Athlete as Philosopher
461: Radical Markets - Solutions for a Gilded Age?
522: Montaigne and the Art of the Essay
463: The Ethics of Algorithms
462: Does Science Over-reach?
458: Repugnant Markets – Should Everything Be For Sale?
451: Misogyny and Gender Inequality
459: The Value of Care — Feminism and Ethics
180: John Rawls