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54Britain’s best-loved dope dealerThe Philosophers' Magazine 54 (54): 121-126. 2011.“His hypothesis is that if you take dope you’re going to end up taking smack, but he’d actually got an incorrect application of Bayes’ theorem... the gateway theory, all obviously complete bollocks, based on a professor’s ineptitude in statistics.”
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51This book includes experiments that cover identity, religion, art, ethics, language, knowledge and more.
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51Faith on TrialThink 2 (4): 81-84. 2003.Julian Baggini's inspector Gore is puzzled by Abraham's faith in God, which, Gore suspects, boils down to a form of mental illness
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51Seeing 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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48Uniting nations?The Philosophers' Magazine 43 (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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47What on earth?The Philosophers' Magazine 43 (43): 50-55. 2008.It’s quite unlike anything else. One just gets the sense of a breadth and variety of philosophy that’s going on. I’m making a point of going on the whole to sessions in areas which aren’t close to my specialised scholarly interests and hearing people from countries I don’t normally encounter. One could stick to mainstream Anglo-American analytic philosophy – there’s enough of that going on here – but why come all this way for that?
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46Morality as a rational requirementPhilosophy 77 (3): 447-453. 2002.John Searle has recently produced an argument for strong altruism which rests on the recognition that ‘I believe my need for help is a reason for you to help me’. The argument fails to recognize the difference between ‘a reason for me for you to help me’ and ‘a reason for you for you to help me.’ These are two logically distinct types of reason and the existence of one can never therefore be enough to establish the existence of the other. The existence of this logical gap is a major obstacle for…Read more
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45Tabloid shockerThink 4 (10): 87-92. 2005.Julian Baggini has managed to lay his hands on some newspaper articles from the future
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42The mind of KoreaThe Philosophers' Magazine 43 (43): 83-87. 2008.It was only after the liberation in 1945 that we started to reflect and revive again our traditional philosophy. But for a long time it was neglected. Many of our universities did not teach oriental philosophy or Korean philosophy at all. We learned Heiddegger, Nietzsche, Hegel, Kant.
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41The 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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39Floated on the ideas marketThe Philosophers' Magazine 49 75-76. 2010.“I would go into a lunch of stockbrokers who would be coming to listen to the business philosopher, and I felt so nervous because I thought I was supposed to tell them where they should be putting their clients’ money on the basis of my knowledge of the history of ideas. I felt such a failure because I didn’t know what they should do with their clients’ funds.”
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38The village anti-idiotThe Philosophers' Magazine 44 12-15. 2009.As a political philosopher he’s very important as a kind of default position: everybody else takes up political philosophy where he leaves off and tries to brighten it up a bit in one way or another
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