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Philosophy at Warwick has checked in at 2nd in the Times Good University Guide 2026 🔥 Thanks for all our staff and students for making
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a great place to be!
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UK university rankings 2026: League table
The definitive 2026 UK university rankings league table, from The Times and The Sunday Times. Discover the best universities
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David Bather Woods
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📣 New publication! 📣 My article, ‘Schopenhauer’s Worst of All Possible Worlds’, is open access in BJHP 🔓
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Schopenhauer’s worst of all possible worlds
Few are persuaded by Schopenhauer’s argument that ours is the worst of all possible worlds. In this paper, I propose and defend an alternative reading of Schopenhauer’s argument. According to my re...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09608788.2025.2543360
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📢 Calling Warwick Philosophy Alumnae and Alumni 👩🎓 You are warmly invited to join us for a reunion on Saturday 22 November. Join us for a day of celebration and reconnection. Book your place here 👉
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Philosophy Talk
3 months ago
TODAY: Josh & Ray question everything between boredom and suffering with
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from
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
, author of "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of
#Philosophy’s
Greatest Pessimist" – 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco &
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Schopenhauer: Living Your Worst Life
Are we all just pinging about between suffering and boredom?
https://www.kalw.org/show/philosophy-talk/2025-07-11/schopenhauer-living-your-worst-life
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Philosophy Talk
3 months ago
Coming up: Josh & Ray keep boredom and suffering at bay with
@davidbatherwoods.bsky.social
from
@philoswarwick.bsky.social
, author of "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist" – Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco &
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Philosophy Talk
3 months ago
For our next episode we revisit the life and thought of Arthur Schopenhauer with
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from
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. Ahead of the broadcast we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to look for the silver lining in Schopenhauer's dismal view:
youtu.be/tG-kN4dG5Y0
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Schopenhauer—Living Your Worst Life: Roving Philosophical Report
YouTube video by Philosophy Talk
https://youtu.be/tG-kN4dG5Y0
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Stuart Elden
3 months ago
Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History - Oxford University Press, September 2023
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I've shared this book before; there is now a NDPR review by Steve Naragon
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Kant and the Transformation of Natural History
Natural history (naturalis historia, Naturgeschichte, histoire naturelle) in the western world began in earnest with Aristotle as an exercise in the des...
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/kant-and-the-transformation-of-natural-history/
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Philosophy Talk
4 months ago
Later this week we'll be recording an episode with
@davidbatherwoods.bsky.social
, author of the forthcoming book "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist." Got questions about living your worst life? Let us know below, and we may ask you question on the show!
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We're hiring: Teaching Fellow - Philosophy
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Teaching Fellow - Philosophy (110614-0625) - University of Warwick
Title: Teaching Fellow - Philosophy (110614-0625). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Fixed Term
https://warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre-1/brand-4/user-11595/xf-287774c8e052/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/3/opp/2965-Teaching-Fellow-Philosophy-110614-0625/en-GB
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We're hiring: Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) - Moral and/or Political Philosophy
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Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) - Moral and/or Political Philosophy (110613-0625) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) - Moral and/or Political Philosophy (110613-0625). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Fixed Term
https://warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre-1/brand-4/user-11595/xf-287774c8e052/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/3/opp/2967-Assistant-Professor-Teaching-Focussed-Moral-and-or-Political-Philosophy-110613-0625/en-GB
4 months ago
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Barry C Smith
4 months ago
Department of Philosophy at Warwick celebrates its 60th anniversary in Senate House
@uolpress.bsky.social
with speeches on why
#philosophymatters
by Qassim Cassam, Heather Widdows,
@guylongworth.bsky.social
and
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Warwick Psychology
4 months ago
Giulia Palazzolo from
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concludes the
#LLGAwayDay
with her analysis of the evolution of human syntax
#BigQuestions
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🎙️ Episode 6 of Daybreak OUT NOW 🚀 In this special on-the-road episode, we head to San Francisco for the APA Pacific Division to spotlight a groundbreaking panel on Amalia Holst and the vocation of the intellectual woman. Featuring the amazing
@dalianassar.bsky.social
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4 months ago
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📖 New Book: Matter and Life in Coleridge, Schelling, and Other Dynamical Idealists, edited by Peter Cheyne. Check out Chapter 14 by Warwick's Andrew Cooper on Coleridge's unexpected contribution to the British biosciences 🚀
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Matter and Life in Coleridge, Schelling, and Other Dynamical Idealists
This book written by renowned historians of philosophy, provides an interdisciplinary work on matter & life in early-modern Germany and Britain (1600–1850)
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-78315-9
5 months ago
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It's publication today for Emeritus Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson's new book: Nietzsche's Earthbound Wisdom! 🚀 The book alerts us to an overlooked stream in Nietzsche's thought: the need to cultivate a new care of the self and care of life. Don't miss it 👇
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Nietzsche’s Earthbound Wisdom
An incisive exploration of Nietzsche as a bold, visionary poet-philosopher. Today, Nietzsche is justly celebrated for his rich, philosophical naturalism, but Keith Ansell-Pearson warns that we must ...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo244498925.html
5 months ago
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Kate Kirkpatrick
5 months ago
This week I gave a talk at Warwick Philosophy (
@philoswarwick.bsky.social
) and had so much fun it still makes me smile two days later. Whether or not philosophy starts in wonder, it is wonderful when it brings so much laughter. (In other words: thank you!)
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🎙️ Catch
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on the latest episode of Daybreak - Schopenhauer and the Frankfurt School 👉
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6 months ago
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🔥 New episode of Daybreak 🔥 Join our discussion with Johanna Oksala as we uncover Beauvoir’s critical phenomenology, a method that not only describes experience but interrogates power, embodiment, and oppression 👉
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6 months ago
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Matthew B
6 months ago
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Beauvoir and Critical Phenomenology
Daybreak · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3KhCBxiPLt2imRAsAAY73H?si=XTVkVr9vQ3qyIbKn2dr82w
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What if art isn’t just about beauty but about revealing truth itself? Join us for Daybreak Episode 3 for a conversation with
@jensensuther.bsky.social
on Heidegger's artwork essay. 👉
open.spotify.com/episode/5hWz...
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@chenphilosophy.com
6 months ago
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Jason Chen
6 months ago
Check out the newest philosophy podcast episodes from all over the internet!
#philsky
#bioethics
#ai
#psychsky
#edusky
philosophypodcasthub.substack.com/p/new-episod...
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New Episodes 3/30/25 - 4/5/25
Stay up to date on the newest episodes from all over the internet.
https://philosophypodcasthub.substack.com/p/new-episodes-33025-4525
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(women) In Parenthesis
6 months ago
Next week, 8th April, join us online for the penultimate speaker for our online Seminar Series: Nicola Holt, Oxford University ‘Iris Murdoch, Susanne Langer and the Great Transformer’ For more information on how to join visit our website:
www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/
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News | In Parenthesis
https://www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/
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Joe Saunders
6 months ago
A recent attempt to critically think through Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic. Nice interview beforehand too. Thanks guys!
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🎙️ What makes the master’s dominance over the slave morally wrong? In this episode of Daybreak we sit down with
@joe-saunders.bsky.social
to break open Hegel's master-slave dialectic 🔥
#philsky
#PhilosophyMatters
👉
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6 months ago
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David Bather Woods
6 months ago
It lives! You can now preorder my philosophical biography of Schopenhauer. Out in November.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
An engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with Arthur Schopenhauer’s pessimism. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) almos...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo256533513.html
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Jules
7 months ago
The annual Women in the History of Philosophy lecture at Sheffield is this week! Julia Borcherding on ‘Towards a New History of Philosophy? Early Modern Women Philosophers and the Canon: A Case Study'. 28/03/2025, 2:30-4:30pm, Diamond LT2.
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#philofortnight2025
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Guy Longworth
7 months ago
#PhilosophyMatters
and, if it matters, it matters at all ages.
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Fantastic Philosophy: Primary philosophy teaching resources
In this illustrated series narrated by Sir Stephen Fry, a community of animals living in a fictional savannah try to navigate some tricky philosophical questions. Aimed at pupils studying at KS2 level...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articles/znmj3qt
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Professor Fabienne Peter on why
#PhilosophyMatters
🔥
#PhiloFortnight2025
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7 months ago
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Warwick Philosophy
Lisa Bortolotti
7 months ago
What a great afternoon sharing our experiences of bringing philosophy to young people! Watch the recording of our #PhilosophyMatters webinar, Philosophy in the Classroom
youtu.be/Q4XGl_gTyqw
#PhilosophyMatters
#PhiloFortnight2025
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Philosophy in the Classroom
In this webinar panelists discuss methods and resources to bring philosophy to young people. Watch to hear about the community of inquiry, The Philosophy Garden, and Philosophy Smash with Henry! The webinar is part of the #PhilosophyMatters campaign by the British Philosophical Association and it i
https://youtu.be/Q4XGl_gTyqw
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Guy Longworth
7 months ago
Unsettling Questions, by me, on perceptual knowledge, knowing how you know, and reasons, out now
#PhilosophyMatters
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Unsettling Questions
Abstract. Should we expect someone who knows by seeing invariably to be able to settle the questions (i) How do you know? (ii) Why do you think so? or (iii
https://academic.oup.com/book/58230/chapter-abstract/484049694?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
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A good theory of extremism enables us to properly define terrorism. Hear Warwick's Quassim Cassam on why
#PhilosophyMatters
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#PhiloFortnight2025
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7 months ago
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Today in
#PhiloFortnight2025
we launch Daybreak, a
#philosophy
podcast broadcasting research at Warwick 🚀 In our pilot episode we're joined by Andrew Huddleston to discuss ‘ressentiment’ - a toxic, vengeful anger that threatens our social lives 🔥
#PhilosophyMatters
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Daybreak
Podcast · University of Warwick · Daybreak is a podcast produced by the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Join your host, Andrew Cooper, as we discuss the la...
https://open.spotify.com/show/7FMsQjLC5ntwt2COXB0AJg?si=b61b48066bc94b08
7 months ago
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"Schopenhauer’s Response to Misanthropy" 🔥
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7 months ago
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On Friday we welcomed over 150 sixth formers to our Year 12 Philosophy Conference - so many wonderful conversations about why
#PhilosophyMatters
🚀
#PhiloFortnight2025
#Philsky
7 months ago
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Warwick Philosophy
David Bather Woods
7 months ago
Still recuperating from welcoming over 150 sixth formers to our Year 12 Philosophy Conference! 😅
@philoswarwick.bsky.social
#PhilosophyMatters
#PhiloFortnight2025
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Why
#PhilosophyMatters
, with Warwick's Patrick Tomlin 🔥
#PhiloFortnight2025
#Philsky
7 months ago
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‘Philosophers ask the best questions.’ Insights from some of the most creative thinkers of our moment on why
#PhilosophyMatters
at Senate House. Lift off for
#PhiloFortnight2025
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7 months ago
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Hear Warwick's Heather Widdows on why
#PhilosophyMatters
. For more on Professor Widdows’ groundbreaking research on
#everydaylookism
, see here 👇
www.heatherwiddows.com/everydaylook...
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Guy Longworth
7 months ago
Lots of great stuff going on during the British Philosophical Association’s
#PhilosophyMatters
campaign:
bpa.ac.uk/activities/p...
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#PhilosophyMatters - British Philosophical Association
British Philosophy Fortnight 17th-30th March 2025 #PhilosophyMatters #PhiloFortnight2025 What? British Philosophy Fortnight is a new annual initiative to celebrate, promote and champion philosophy. ...
https://bpa.ac.uk/activities/philosophymatters/
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How did speech acts come about in the evolution of communication? To launch
#PhilosophyMatters
at Warwick, Mitch Green gave a talk
@warwick-mindaction.bsky.social
last Friday on "The Cultural Evolution of Speech Act Norms".
#PhiloFortnight2025
#philsky
7 months ago
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A great start to
#PhilosophyMatters
Fortnight with Quassim Cassam's public talk on 'Defining terrorism: from Emily Davison to Axel Rudakubana'
#PhiloFortnight2025
#PhilSky
More Incredible events to come 👇
bpa.ac.uk/activities/p...
7 months ago
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Philosophical Psychology
7 months ago
Our book review editor Kathleen Murphy-Hollies @kmurphyhollies who is co-leading a project on conspiracy theories and storytelling features in this free
#PhilosophyMatters
webinar TOMORROW kicking off
#PhiloFortnight2025
birmingham.ac.uk/schools/ptr/...
Register and enjoy!
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Lisa Bortolotti
7 months ago
Happy #PhiloFortnight2025! If you feel inspired, read this open access chapter by Katherine Puddifoot and myself on why philosophy helps us resist bias and stigma
www.degruyter.com/do...
#PhiloFortnight2025!
#PhilosophyMatters
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Philosophy, Bias, and Stigma
Philosophy, Bias, and Stigma was published in Why Philosophy? on page 51.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110650990-007/html
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📢 Catch Mitch Green (Connecticut) give a workshop at Warwick Mind and Action this Friday on 'The Cultural Evolution of Speech Act Norms'. A0.23, 16:00-18:00
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7 months ago
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Guy Longworth
8 months ago
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The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters
Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/feb/05/the-deep-cultural-cost-of-british-university-job-cuts
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LSE British Politics and Policy blog
8 months ago
💡New! Keir Starmer has ordered a review of the definition of terrorism in response to the Southport murders. But Quassim Cassam of
@philoswarwick.bsky.social
argues that the current definition is fit for purpose and changing it could lead to unintended consequences.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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The Southport murders don’t justify changing the definition of terrorism
Keir Starmer has ordered a review of the definition of terrorism in response to the Southport murders. But Quassim Cassam argues that the current definition is fit for purpose, and changing it…
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-southport-murders-dont-justify-changing-the-definition-of-terrorism/
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Emeritus Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson's work has helped place Nietzsche's philosophy as a way of life at the centre of the Post-Kantian tradition. You can now find his books and papers in one place 👇👇
#philsky
ansellpearsonphilosophy.weebly.com
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KEITH ANSELL-PEARSON
My published research focuses on modern thought and literature. I have a special interest in Nietzsche. Thinkers and writers important to me, and who inform my current research, include Simone de...
https://ansellpearsonphilosophy.weebly.com/
8 months ago
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British Journal of Aesthetics
8 months ago
NEW ISSUE, BABY!
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"A comprehensive, compelling and original assessment of Heidegger's interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason." 🚀 Check out Warwick PhD student Fridolin Neumann's review of Morganna Lambether's new book 👇👇
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant. The Violence and the Charity, by Morganna Lambeth Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9781009239271
Click on the article title to read more.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejop.13044
8 months ago
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Keep a look out for this firebrand of a history 👇 *A Social History of Analytic Philosophy*, by
@schuringa.bsky.social
"How do you tell a scribe from a prophet . . .? The prophets love the people they chastise.” Marylinne Robinson
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