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14Stirring Shit: On Bullshit, Harry Frankfurt (Princeton University Press)£ 6.50/$9.95 (hb) (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 31 88-88. 2005.
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63Hay on whyThe Philosophers' Magazine 47 20-22. 2009.Philosophy has become more and more abstracted from people’s daily lives, so in a way, philosophers are a kind of joke in Britain. The only time they appearis in comedy and it seems to me really important to do something about this
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37Anglo-Saxon reserveThe Philosophers' Magazine 43 (43): 60-66. 2008.There’s not only indifference, there’s actually a huge sense of sneering superiority. The need for intercultural understanding and global dialogue between different philosophical traditions and philosophical countries is so important. It’s just crazy to think that in your own monoglot culture you’ve got all the essential tools that you need to do philosophy.
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1Schools of thoughtThe Philosophers' Magazine 56 14-17. 2012.Kids can astonish with the philosophical ideas they spontaneously have, but are they really able to follow through their implications systematically and logically? And isn’t that what philosophy is essentially about, not just having interesting ideas?
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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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37Thank goodness for DanThe Philosophers' Magazine 48 60-65. 2010.I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough
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7Uniting nations?The Philosophers' Magazine 43 94-98. 2008.The whole purpose of the UN is to bring nations together. In an era of globalisation and short term economic goals and values, we need to go back to reflect on the purposes of UNESCO as a place for foresight, a laboratory of ideas, exploring people’s identity and helping shape this. And I also hope that we can introduce these ideas backto the mainstream European and North American traditions, which tend to dominate, so that people can see there are different traditions and cultures and there’s n…Read more
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Conference briefing 30 free will and determinism Ron Wilburn et alThe Philosophers' Magazine 13. 2001.
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37Excavating SocratesThe Philosophers' Magazine 53 120-126. 2011.“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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