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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/isaiah-berlin-philosophy-review-nikhil-krishnan/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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humanity</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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Isaiah Berlin, the non-philosophers’ philosopher</p>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-force-of-nonviolence-judith-butler-review-kathleen-stock/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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of death</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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other people</p>
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</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
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<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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man</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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philosopher who questioned the existence of the world</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">clare carlisle and yitzhak
y. melamed</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Essay</span></div>
<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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trolley problems</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Some philosophical
responses to the coronavirus</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">nigel warburton</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/promise-of-artificial-intelligence-brian-cantwell-smith-book-review/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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don’t give a damn</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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genuine thinking machines</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">tim crane</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Essay</span></div>
<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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and liberty</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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measures turn into dangerous government overreach? </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">jonathan wolff</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Essay</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/alcohol-locked-at-home-but-feeling-homeless/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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home, but feeling homeless</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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need is alcohol serving during the crisis?</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">tom whyman</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-world-philosophy-made-scott-soames-review-alexandre-leskanich/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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the face of death</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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struggles to see things clearly</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">alexandre leskanich</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/galileos-error-phillip-goff-review-alex-moran/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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of the rose</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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by mentality?</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">alex moran</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Essay</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-trials-of-socrates-and-jesus-essay-d-l-dusenbury/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">‘A world like
a Russian novel’</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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Socrates and Jesus</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">d. l. dusenbury</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__category"><a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/">Philosophy</a></span><span
class="tls-article-label__separator">|</span><span
class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-oxford-handbook-of-4e-cognition-book-review-ian-ground/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">‘I’s before
‘E’s</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">A
post-representationalist account of experience: 4E
Cognition</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">ian ground</span></div>
</div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/">History
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/autobiographhy-of-solomon-maimon-melamed-sucher-review-audrey-borowski/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">The eternal
foreigner</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Jewish life and
European thought in the eighteenth century</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">audrey borowski</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/chinese-thought-roel-sterckx-philosophy-review-bryan-van-norden/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Reach for the
road map</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Taking non-Western
philosophy seriously </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">bryan w. van norden</span></div>
</div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/">History
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/paul-celan-et-martin-heidegger-book-review-hadrien-france-lanord-george-steiner/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Drawn from
silence</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium"><b>From 2004</b>:
Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger’s evening of words</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">george steiner</span></div>
</div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">The magician
in love</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium"><b>From 1999</b>:
George Steiner on the work of Hannah Arendt and Martin
Heidegger</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">george steiner</span></div>
</div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Essay</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/brexit-better-way-winner/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">A better way
to be a winner</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Why Brexiteer
politicians need to stop gloating over their victories
and start accepting their responsibilities </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">julian baggini</span></div>
</div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Essay</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/roger-scruton-1944-2020-tim-crane/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Roger
Scruton, 1944–2020</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Remembering the
philosopher, who died this week</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">tim crane</span></div>
</div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
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class="tls-article-label__separator">|</span><span
class="tls-article-label__article-type">Essay</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/carving-up-the-amorphous-lump/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Carving up
the amorphous lump</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">How do we learn
about abstract objects such as numbers? By pure
thought? Or perhaps we can <em>see</em> them in the
world</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">emmanuel ordóñez angulo</span></div>
</div>
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philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/on-the-cards/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">On the cards</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">The daunting oeuvre
of a major German philosopher</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">angus nicholls</span></div>
</div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
philosophy</a></span><span
class="tls-article-label__separator">|</span><span
class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/fodder-for-the-grazing-mind/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Fodder for
the grazing mind</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Examples of
condensed thought</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">lachlan mackinnon</span></div>
</div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
philosophy</a></span><span
class="tls-article-label__separator">|</span><span
class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/why-bother-philosophy/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Why bother
with philosophy?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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appraises some arguments in support of arguments</p>
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interesting, less famous achievements of Adam Smith</p>
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considers how to combat parochialism in philosophy</p>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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the rise of censorship in the past thirty years</p>
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career</h2>
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<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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philosopher of narrativity</p>
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</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
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<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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institutions of two postmodern thinkers </p>
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</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
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<a
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<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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– Kripke vs Kuhn </p>
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<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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cultivated his image</p>
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</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
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what?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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ask a philosopher for advice?</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
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thinking?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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considers the limits of trying to speculate about God</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
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Manu</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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of the French President matters</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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dead</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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considers the verdict from a ‘bad boy’ of the
discipline</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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the lobster</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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Peterson’s failed antidote for ‘toxic masculine
despair’ </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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abandon grand ethical theories?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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argues that morality is often merely a case of
muddling through </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">julian baggini</span></div>
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</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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reading Das Kapital as a Victorian crime novel</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">david aberbach</span></div>
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</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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things do not exist</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">tom graham</span></div>
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<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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science?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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philosophers, Roger Scruton and Timothy Williamson,
interrogate their discipline</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">roger scruton & timothy
williamson</span></div>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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like?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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understand how the world works </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">helen steward</span></div>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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element</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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concept of time </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">robin le poidevin</span></div>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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not just about the facts</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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considers what philosophy can add to the post-truth
crisis</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">julian baggini</span></div>
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construction</h2>
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<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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against physicalism</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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exactly, do philosophers do?</h2>
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<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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philosophy began, perhaps</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">jonathan clark</span></div>
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is the purpose of philosophy?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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argues that philosophers today have long abandoned
Plato’s concerns and world view</p>
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data-disablelink="true">carlos fraenkel</span></div>
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Dennett: a philosophical dispute</h2>
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<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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Daniel C. Dennett debate the nature of mind,
introduced by Tim Crane</p>
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<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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not know how to ask</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
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data-disablelink="true">kieran setiya</span></div>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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children about tolerance – and its limits</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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considers how we engage with students on matters of
ethics, tolerance and critical thinking</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">christina easton</span></div>
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without comprehension</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">David Papineau on
the peculiar philosophical assumptions of Daniel
Dennett</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">david papineau</span></div>
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matters</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Terry Eagleton’s
argument from universalism to socialism</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">sandy grant</span></div>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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sake</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Attempting to make
the case for religious belief</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">andrew irwin</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Essay</span></div>
<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Who has the
right to pluck the goose?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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Frecknall-Hughes considers whether the state is
entitled to demand money from its citizens </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">jane frecknall-hughes</span></div>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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the urban space as a common good</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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that government and neo-liberal gentrifiers work
together to demonize squatting</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">deanna dadusc</span></div>
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of philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/philosophy-simply-harder-science/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Is philosophy
simply harder than science?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">David Papineau
considers why philosophy seems to make such slow
progress</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">david papineau</span></div>
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<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">We are not
human</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">The philosophy of
Derek Parfit, and pictures of ourselves both beautiful
and bizarre</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">kieran setiya</span></div>
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of philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/nietzsche-human-all-too-human/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Human, all
too human</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Andrew Huddleston on
the development of Nietzsche’s thought and legacy</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">andrew huddleston</span></div>
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<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Stupendous
intelligence of honey badgers</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Ian Ground on the
slow move away from anthropomorphism when considering
animal intelligence</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">ian ground</span></div>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">How we can be</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Tim Crane on how to
approach the mind–body problem with more than a
‘simplistic brain’s eye view’</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">tim crane</span></div>
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<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Soundings and
poundings</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">How the prose of
Walter Benjamin is an ‘exercise in attentiveness’ to
the present moment</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">carolin duttlinger</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/">History
of philosophy</a></span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/foucault-investigates/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Foucault
investigates</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Duncan Kelly on the
prodigious output of a writer who has influenced
disciplines from classics to politics to psychology</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">duncan kelly</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/cannabis-ethics-britain/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Why are the
British so scared of cannabis?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">David Nutt considers
why the UK remains so out of step on legalization </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">david nutt</span></div>
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<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ethics-belief-faith/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">The sin of
believing</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Arif Ahmed argues
that religious believers fail in their duty to take
evidence seriously</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">arif ahmed</span></div>
</div>
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<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/fashion-ethics/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Fashion:
finding authenticity at the surface</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Rebecca Arnold
argues that it is only our particular prejudices that
align virtue with modesty </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">rebecca arnold</span></div>
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<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Dangerously
playing God?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Paul Thompson
discusses genetic modification: much maligned but
little understood</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">paul thompson</span></div>
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<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/alvin-plantinga-templeton-prize/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Alvin
Plantinga and the Templeton Prize</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Rupert Shortt
considers the thought of the philosopher whose work
has helped to keep God alive in academia </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">rupert shortt</span></div>
</div>
</div>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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that thinking about ourselves is one of the core tasks
of philosophy</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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for the causes behind our taboo against cannibalism </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">julian baggini</span></div>
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<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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complex story of modern philosophy</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
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</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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considers our ethical obligations to keep exploring
the cosmos</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">tony milligan</span></div>
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class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Marine A and
the morality of killing in war</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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that psychological stress does not affect the morality
of killing</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">helen frowe</span></div>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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examines the enduring appeal of the existentialists</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">shahidha bari</span></div>
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<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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truth and Jaffa Cakes</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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what the cake vs biscuit debate can reveal about
philosophy</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
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activity</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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departments during the Cold War </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">jonathan rée</span></div>
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abandon marriage?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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argues the state should stop privileging some
relationships over others</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">clare chambers</span></div>
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ethics</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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theory interacts with messy reality when it comes to
articulating good behaviour</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
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nation of Scrooges?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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argues that we should consider how lucky we are at
Christmas, and how much more good we could, and
should, do</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">william macaskill</span></div>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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creatures will inevitably improve</p>
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</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">mark rowlands</span></div>
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Good and Evil</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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that society ought to stop moralizing about alcohol </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">tim crane</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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Greeks</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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argument that pre-Hellenic philosophy existed</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">d. l. dusenbury</span></div>
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printed on demand</h2>
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<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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moral problems of scanning human bodies</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
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be banned?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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Ingmar Persson discuss the ethics of a perverse
pleasure</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">julian savulescu and ingmar
persson</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
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Mandarin, Gadfly etc</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">What is it to be a
philosopher? Is philosophy an activity requiring
professional accreditation within a particular
institutional setting? Is it just whatever is done by
professional, academic philosophers? Or...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">stephen gaukroger</span></div>
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divides us</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Bernie Hogan argues
that Facebook is polarizing populations and damaging
the political climate</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">bernie hogan</span></div>
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<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Pretty as a
picture</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Inspired by John
Locke and the Earl of Shaftesbury, the
eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Francis
Hutcheson conjectured that we have an aesthetic sense.
Things in the world strike us as beautiful...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">john kulvicki</span></div>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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brain?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Tim Crane argues
that a person is not just a 1.5kg lump of flesh, but
that doesn't mean we're immaterial souls either</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">tim crane</span></div>
</div>
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class="tls-article-label__article-type">Book Review</span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/think-ahead/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium"> Arguing that all of
our core mental states are predictions</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">richard holton</span></div>
</div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/meaning-of-life/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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life</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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and Wittgenstein (and others) to map out a theory of
the value of feeling</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">caryl emerson</span></div>
</div>
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intentions</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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despairing search for meaning crammed into the twelve
years of Kierkegaard’s writing career</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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learning</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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the world is seen to work</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">adelheid voskuhl</span></div>
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tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Tragic circle</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Our endless
engagement with homelessness</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">karen lang</span></div>
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</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">The tension between
the morality of higher purpose and the morality of
personal fulfilment </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">albert weale</span></div>
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<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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than others</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Julian Baggini on
our relationships with animals, and various views on
the morality of eating some of them </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">julian baggini</span></div>
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of philosophy</a></span></div>
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not essence</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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response to modern history</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true"> sudhir hazareesingh</span></div>
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of philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/within-reason-3/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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meaning of everything – within reason</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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universe and everything</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">michael saler</span></div>
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of philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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a blabbering mess!</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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Bertrand Russell: a non-meeting of Body and Mind </p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">tom overton </span></div>
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of philosophy</a></span></div>
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is possible in the modern age</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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possible in the modern age</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">paul sagar</span></div>
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of philosophy</a></span></div>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Vive la
différence</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">In the late 1970s
Vincent Descombes wrote a short sharp book called Le
Même et l’Autre, published in English soon afterwards
as Modern French Philosophy. His main argument was
that...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">jonathan rée</span></div>
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philosophy</a></span></div>
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
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</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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become an animal</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">mark rowlands </span></div>
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philosophy</a></span></div>
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tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Get to the
point</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Ockham’s razor, the
“principle of parsimony”, states that simpler theories
that are compatible with our observations are better
than more complex ones. The principle has a long
history – dating...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">tom graham </span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/out-there-2/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Out there</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">In this important
book, the philosopher Roger Trigg sets out to honour
the sciences by not letting them be shouldered with
burdens they cannot bear, such as being the arbiter...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">andrew davison </span></div>
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philosophy</a></span></div>
<a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/grounded/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Grounded</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">The Ant Trap aims to
refute “ontological individualism”: the view that
social institutions, events and facts – political
parties, financial crises, etc – depend exclusively on
the individuals that constitute...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">arif ahmed </span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/cartesian-canines/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Cartesian
canines</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">The Cartesian view
of dogs and other non-human animals as biological
machines devoid of sentience, emotion and intelligence
that passed as received wisdom for much of the past
century has...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">mark derr</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__category"><a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/">History
of philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/machine-in-the-machine/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Machine in
the machine</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Descartes has long
had a place in the philisophical canon, but from our
present-day perspective his reputation can look
distinctly moth-eaten. In epistemology, his quest to
construct a complete system...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">john cottingham</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/">History
of philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/in-progress/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">In progress</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Vincenzo Ferrone,
who originally worked under the great Italian
historian Franco Venturi on the history of science,
has since the beginning of this century been
increasingly interested in the political...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">richard bourke </span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/intellectual-vices/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Intellectual
vices</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Although Jason
Stanley describes his book as “a book about the nature
of propaganda”, its main aim is political: to develop
an argument against material inequality. He argues
that there...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">olivier massin </span></div>
</div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/why-save-the-world/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Why save the
world?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">We can distinguish
between meaning in life and the meaning of life.
Inattention to this distinction mars the philosophical
study of meaning – but it is simple. The meaning of...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">james tartaglia</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/">History
of philosophy</a></span></div>
<a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/bewitched/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Bewitched</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">What links
Wittgenstein's thought to his life? His charisma,
confessional prose and the struggle that is philosophy
itself</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">tim crane </span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/this-wont-hurt/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">This won’t
hurt</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">“This book is not a
suicide note”, Simon Critchley reassures us at the
start of Notes on Suicide. Instead he proposes to
“look at suicide closely, carefully, and perhaps a...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">amia srinivasan </span></div>
</div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/">History
of philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/what-lies-ahead/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">What lies
ahead</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">The story is as old
as philosophy itself. Socrates, found guilty of
impiety and of corrupting the youth, is sentenced to
death by an Athenian court. Given the chance to...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">will rees</span></div>
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<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Applying for medical
and retirement benefits at an American Social Security
office, as I’ve just done, is a grim affair. There,
crammed into an overheated room, sit the aged, the...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">jerry coyne</span></div>
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of philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/bars-and-stripes/"
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stripes</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Le Collège de
France, founded in 1530 and located in Paris’s Latin
Quarter, is one of France’s elite institutions. It is
a public institution of higher education but it
enrols...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">david garland </span></div>
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philosophy</a></span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/walking-shadow/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Walking
shadow</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">You look down
benignly from a perch in heaven onto the street where
you lived. Or you watch with terror from inside a
lifeless body as the coffin lid is...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">david e. cooper</span></div>
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philosophy</a></span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/body-language-3/"
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tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Body language</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">"Butler is the
closest thing we have in the humanities to a rock
star", reads a sales pitch for Senses of the Subject,
a new collection of essays spanning the length and
breadth of Judith Butler's academic career...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">will rees</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__category"><a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/">History
of philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/never-as-free/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Never as free</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Among the handful of
shorter philosophical works that Sartre published in
the run-up to his monumental L’Être et le Néant (1943;
Being and Nothingness, 1956), there were two –
L’Imagination...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">sarah richmond</span></div>
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class="tls-article-label__category"><a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/">History
of philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/look-whos-back-2/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Look who’s
back</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Thirteenth-century
scholastic philosophers have a reputation for being
slavish followers of Aristotle. The reputation is not
well deserved. Consider the phenomenon of vision. For
Aristotle, we see something when a...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">peter adamson</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ways-to-help/"
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tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Ways to help</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">It has become a
moral cliché to deplore the exploding economic
inequality that plagues our planet, both within
individual states and across their boundaries. What is
to be done about...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">thomas nagel</span></div>
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philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
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of</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
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for a guide to take you to Larissa, and you found
someone who had been there many times before, who knew
the right way and who...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">barry stroud</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/">History
of philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/stuck-in-the-throat/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Stuck in the
throat</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">In January 1956,
Albert Camus flew from Paris, where he had lived since
the end of the Second World War, to his native
Algeria. For nearly two years, the country,...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">robert zaretsky</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
philosophy</a></span></div>
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tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">What went
wrong?</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">From the briefest of
metaphors to comparative studies of empires across
millennia, the realization of unobvious parallels can
strike sparks of new understanding. Michael Walzer,
now eighty and one of...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">lucy beckett</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/">History
of philosophy</a></span></div>
<a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ideal-art/"
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tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Ideal art</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Freedom and
necessity, heroic casualties and passive survivors,
destructive conflict and constructive resolution, the
human and the beyond: in modern discussions,
categories like these are regularly invoked as ways
of...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">michael silk</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/history-of-philosophy/">History
of philosophy</a></span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/great-escapes/"
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tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Great escapes</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">On reflection it
seems strange that the English-speaking world should
have waited almost fifty-five years to produce a
student’s commentary on Emmanuel Levinas’s book
Totalité et infini (1961; Totality and...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">william rees</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/feel-for-you/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Feel for you</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">The alleged
opposition between reason and feeling is at the core
of the eighteenth-century debates between
rationalists and sentimentalists. Sentimentalists
argued that only feeling could make us act. If this...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">philip gerrans</span></div>
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philosophy</a></span></div>
<a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/right-back/"
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tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Right back</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">The contemporary
debate over the validity of religious belief tends to
play out in a curiously abstract and rationalistic
way. We think of ourselves as detached, autonomous
agents, scrutinizing the...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">john cottingham</span></div>
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philosophy</a></span></div>
<a
href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/a-line-of-chestnuts/"
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tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">A line of
chestnuts</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">In delivering his
lecture “Elementary Reflections on Sense-Perception”
to the Royal Institute of Philosophy in 1951, C. D.
Broad began by begging his audience’s indulgence for
engaging with such a...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">mark eli kalderon</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
philosophy</a></span></div>
<a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/two-cakes/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Two cakes</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Philosophers are
prone to heated debates about which things really
exist. Not only do they love to argue about the
existence of arcane things such as “temporal parts”
and “mereological...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">tom graham</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
philosophy</a></span></div>
<a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/why-will/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Why will</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">As Martin Shuster
observes, in contrast to Kant, Fichte, Hegel,
Nietzsche and Heidegger, T. W. Adorno has “remained
largely absent” from the recent renewal of interest in
German philosophy. Of...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">andrew bowie</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/no-strings-attached/"
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attached</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">In Heinrich von
Kleist’s essay The Puppet Theatre (1810), the
character Mr C wanders through a public park, where he
meets the recently appointed first dancer of the opera
house....</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">marina gerner</span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/philosophy/contemporary-philosophy/">Contemporary
philosophy</a></span></div>
<a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/snookered/"
class="tls-card-headline">
<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">Snookered</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">Women occupy 25 per
cent of the posts in university philosophy departments
across the United Kingdom. The figures are similar
throughout the anglophone world. In the United States
the proportion...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">david papineau</span></div>
</div>
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philosophy</a></span></div>
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href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ill-have-to-get-back-to-you/"
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<h2 class="tls-card-headline__title
tls-card-headline__title--size-medium">I’ll have to
get back to you</h2>
</a>
<p class="tls-card-standfirst
tls-card-standfirst--size-medium">In Western
philosophy an idea of self-knowledge has played many
different roles, whether as a form of practical wisdom
and the goal of philosophical reflection, the starting
point in the...</p>
<div class="tls-byline"><span class="tls-byline__by">By
</span><span class="tls-byline__name"
data-disablelink="true">richard moran</span></div>
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