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A Philosophical Note #for Mahsa: Fighting for Truth in an Epistemologically Polluted Area (guest post)
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The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Philosophical Children’s Book About Love and Loss
Days go by and he does not return. Michael Strange and Margaret Wise Brown One day…
Mortgage Refinance Rates for Sep. 30, 2022: Rates Increase – CNET
Most people refinance because the market interest rates are lower than their current rates or because…
2022 Sanders Metaphysics Prize Awarded
A very influential objection to Presentism is empirical: insofar as Presentism entails that there is an…
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‘Hocus Pocus 2’ Review: Bewitching Bette Midler Re-Creates the Old Magic on Disney Plus – CNET
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If you teach philosophy and have put learning materials on your individual website, please include a…
Facebook Pulls Fake Accounts From China That Posed as Americans – CNET
What’s happening Meta said it pulled down fake accounts on Facebook and Instagram that appear to…
Teaching and Writing About Abortion in Idaho (and elsewhere?)
That is from an email from the University of Idaho’s General Counsel to the university’s employees…
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Full Tilt: Dervla Murphy’s Fierce and Poetic Account of Traversing the World on Two Wheels in the 1960s
Particularly I remember the unique purity of the light, which gave to every variation of every…
‘Enola Holmes 2’ Trailer Has Millie Bobby Brown Solving More Mysteries – CNET
Enola Holmes 2 is the follow-up to the 2020 movie in which she went searching for her…
Mesmerizing Microphotography of the Hairs of Different Animals Under Polarized Light
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Kierkegaard on How to Save Yourself
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Recent and Upcoming Retirements 2022-23
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Best Cordless Impact Wrench for 2022 – CNET
There are other features that differ between battery impact wrenches, as well. For instance, some have…
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Complement this particular portion of the wholly stunning Beloved Prophet with Coleridge on the storm, the…
Philosophy’s Happiness Literature: More of It, More Empirical (guest post)
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A Love Letter to the Apple
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NYU Launches Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program
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