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Category: Philosophical Discussion
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By Sam Duncan I made a mistake in my ethics class this semester: I canceled John Stuart Mill. To be quite honest it wasn’t entirely Mill’s history as an administrator for the East India Company or the fact that he was the author of an unsuccessful defense of the company and its (mis)deeds in the…
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There has been a lot of discussion of ‘longtermism’ recently—in TIME, The New York Times, and social media. Some people think longtermism is great. Others think it’s dangerous. I have concerns about how it is likely to be misused too. But mostly, I just think it’s philosophically mistaken. The idea that we should care more…
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This is a guest post by Deborah Nelson Bio: Deborah Nelson received a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Brandeis University in 2014 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from UCR in September 2022. Her dissertation examined the philosophy of action literature for class-centrism and proposed advancing this literature by balancing the current focus on stability with…
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The APA Blog has a nice discussion of my colleague Devon Johnson's recent book, Black Nihilism and Antiblack Racism. Having read the book, I can confirm that it's a fascinating and worthwhile read. Chapter 2 in particular struck me as one of the more original and thought-provoking pieces of philosophy that I've read in a long…