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96The long road to equalityThe Philosophers' Magazine 53 14-19. 2011.You can't go through a graduate programme in other humanities subjects and be considered competent in those fields unless you've done some work on gender and race issues. Feminist work is mainstream. In philosophy that's just not true. You could go through a philosophy degree to this day and never have a class by a woman, never have to encounter anything having to do with feminism or gender or race.
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News hound the all-time top 50, Lord Sutherland and the death of Wesley salmonThe Philosophers' Magazine 13. 2001.
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34The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational WorldYale University Press. 2016._An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving—or even discussing—divisive issues_ Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired faculty. Rationality and reason have become political, disputed concepts, subject to easy dismissal. Julian Baggini argues eloquently that we must recover our reason and reassess its proper place, …Read more
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303Darwin’s empty ideaThe Philosophers' Magazine 49 (49): 23-32. 2010.“It’s not good enough to say there’s some mechanism such that you start out with amoebas and you end up with us. Everybody agrees with that. The question is in this case in the mechanical details. What you need is an account, as it were step by step, about what the constraints are, what the environmental variables are, and Darwin doesn’t give you that.”
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130Seeing both sidesThe Philosophers' Magazine 9 (9): 42-45. 2000.“Socrates spent many of his prime years fighting the most vicious, pitiless wars. I think that has a huge impact. I wonder if his central interest in the good is because actually he saw a lot that was very bad all around him.”
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85This book includes experiments that cover identity, religion, art, ethics, language, knowledge and more.
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73We’re all postmoderns nowThe Philosophers' Magazine 56 (56): 121-126. 2012.“I suppose my feeling about the post-modernism exhibition is that it’s testing philosophical claims through research, rather than a kind of active philosophical investigation.”
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