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“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means...
Clockwise from top: Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, Elizabeth Anscombe How four women defended ethical thought from the legacy of positivism… By Michaelmas Term 1939, mere weeks after the...
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“I love to talk about nothing. It’s the only thing I know anything about.”*…
Joy Walker: Three Boxes Three Ways, 2009 Nonbeing belongs to that category of concepts that seem self-evident and self-explanatory, but as FT explains, it has perplexed philosophers for ages… Bertrand...
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“You shouldn’t rely on what you believe to be true. You might be mistaken....
The ancient Sceptics– often called Pyrrhonists after Pyrrho, the ancient Greek master Sceptic who lived in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE– used doubt as a way of investigating the world. As Mahdi...
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“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”*…
Philosophy as a discipline, Siobhan Lyons argues, finds itself precariously balanced between incomprehensible specialization and cheap self-help… As long as there has been such a subject as...
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“Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact...
Beethoven at 30 (1800) The estimable Ted Gioia is exploring the possibility that we are at the cusp of a major change in the zeitgeist– the beginning of a new age of Romanticism… I made a flippant...
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