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Doing a thread on my teaching tomorrow--a course on Zhuangzi in conversation with contemporary western philosophy. So stoked! Tomorrow my co-teacher Pauline Lee and I will talk about the importance
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I keep on seeing these calls that it's time to "heal our country", "heal our divisions". I see those calls now after the storming of the Capitol, and I saw
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Some philosophers whose work I read in 2020 that I didn't really know beforeWang Yangming (1472–1529), neo-Confucian Chinese philosopher and generalJane Addams (1860-1935), American social reformer and pragmatistPyotr Kropotkin (1842-
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OMG! Just read this wonderful paper by Rebecca Bamford which indicates Nietzsche anticipating mood psychology by over a century! Psy-ops ... 1/https://philpapers.org/rec/BAMMAA So in Daybreak, Nietzsche considers that it's hard
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Many academics don't seem to know this: It's the editor's job to either reject or accept, or recommend revisions following a peer review report, not the reviewers'. Reviewers give recommendations,
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I have some thoughts about this piece by Michael Gerson. Background (disclosure): I'm not American, I live in the US, I'm a Christian, and as an academic, I have lots
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Been thinking again of the no-deal threat about Brexit. One problem is lack of democratic oversight--something already hinted at by Rousseau. Rousseau thought representative democracy is a layer too many,
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Am thinking of Queen's Gambit, Ep 5 where Harry Beltik offers to help Beth Harmon with chess. He admits freely he is not as good as she is, yet still
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Fascinated by Kropotkin's ethical naturalism. K. argues that we have 2 drives that are at odds (a "double tendency") * a tendency to community, mutual aid* a tendency to individual
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Why do Christians in the US support Trump? Several sources provide useful answers. A short thread and reflection on this. Disclosure of interest: I self-identify as a Christian, but I
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