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Oct 25, 2021

Dylan at 80

It used to go like that, and now it goes like this Gary Browning & Constantine Sandis Bob Dylan did not die young. That still seems a surprise. Dylan himself has reflected a number of times about his cheating of death, toying with concepts of transfiguration and rebirth. From early on, biographers have recorded Dylan’s…

Bob Dylan

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Dylan at 80
Dylan at 80
Bob Dylan

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Oct 11, 2021

Unconscious Bias or Deliberate Gatekeeping?

Philosophy’s Language Problem Louise Chapman, Filippo Contesi, and Constantine Sandis Philosophy has a language problem. A recent study by Schwitzgebel, Huang, Higgins and Gonzalez-Cabrera(2018) found that, in a sample of papers published in elite journals, 97% of citations were to work originally written in English. 73% of this same sample didn’t cite any paper that had been originally written in…

Academic Writing

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Unconscious Bias or Deliberate Gatekeeping?
Unconscious Bias or Deliberate Gatekeeping?
Academic Writing

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May 23, 2021

Was Jesus a Moral Particularist?

Constantine Sandis Moral particularism is often defined as the view that there are no universal moral principles. This is sometimes defended by appeal to examples, such as that of lying to a Nazi officer. Defenders of moral principles either bite the bullet and insist that lying is always wrong, or…

Jesus

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Was Jesus a Moral Particularist?
Was Jesus a Moral Particularist?
Jesus

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May 21, 2021

The Tablet of Our Overcomings

Nietzsche on the Good of the Guise There is a famous thesis in moral philosophy that has come to be known as the ‘guise of the good’. According to this ancient doctrine — which remains popular to this day — we only ever desire things that we perceive as being good, in at least some respect. As…

Desire

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The Tablet of Our Overcomings
The Tablet of Our Overcomings
Desire

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Apr 13, 2020

Doing Nothing in the Time of COVID-19

Doing Nothing in the Time of COVID-19 In the wake of COVID-19, memes asserting that, for the first time in history, we could save the world by doing absolutely nothing went (ahem) viral. The notion that one can achieve a great good by doing bugger all is blindingly attractive. How…

Coronavirus

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Doing Nothing in the Time of COVID-19
Doing Nothing in the Time of COVID-19
Coronavirus

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May 31, 2019

Watch Your Language

I recently heard someone affirm, as if this were common knowledge, that the essence of language is to communicate propositions. When I questioned this assumption, another person interjected that language was by definition the communication of propositions. I thought I’d entered some weird sci-fi novel in which the very notion…

Philosophy

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Watch Your Language
Watch Your Language
Philosophy

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Apr 25, 2019

We Philosophers

Friedrich Nietzsche described his books Human, All Too Human and Thus Spoke Zarathustra as ‘a book for free spirits’ and ‘A Book for All and None’, respectively. What did he mean by this? A clue may be found in his uses of ‘we’ to pick out — and where necessary…

Philosophy

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We Philosophers
We Philosophers
Philosophy

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Dec 15, 2018

Conceptual Surveys

(with Aryeh Younger) ‘Who will guard the guards themselves?’ asked the Roman poet Juvenal. For many today, the answer is to replace guardians altogether with blockchain technology. Blockchains are designed to be resistant to data modification, with each storage block (viz. record) containing an unalterable cryptographic timestamp. As such, the…

Blockchain

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Conceptual Surveys
Conceptual Surveys
Blockchain

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Aug 1, 2018

Anti-Vegan Rhetoric

A vegan sausage by any other name would smell as sweet. Yet France has recently amended its agriculture bill to ban the use of so-called ‘meat and dairy terms’ to describe plant-based products that serve as meat substitutes. These include patties made from soybeans, and dairy alternatives made from oats…

Vegan

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Anti-Vegan Rhetoric
Anti-Vegan Rhetoric
Vegan

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Dec 22, 2017

Christmas With Bob Dylan

’Tis the season of goodwill and cheer, but not many listeners over the past decade have found sufficient reserves of either to forgive Bob Dylan’s 2009 seasonal offering Christmas in the Heart. A sign of the Great American Songbook albums he had yet to record, Dylan delivers his cantankerous brand…

Bob Dylan

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Christmas With Bob Dylan
Christmas With Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan

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Constantine Sandis

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Co-founder of Lex Academic & Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire.

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