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Composers come in the form of two seasons — winter and summer. Gustav Mahler, who worked in a shed beside a lake, is the archetypal summer composer.

7. July 2020 Philosophy News News

Composers come in the form of two seasons — winter and summer. Gustav Mahler, who worked in a shed beside a lake, is the archetypal summer [More]

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The Energy Transition: Who has the right to speak?

6. July 2020 Philosophy News News

Italy is not a windy country and it relies mainly on the sun for its renewable energy. Nevertheless, some spots of the Appennini mountains are swept by enough wind to make it possible to build wind pl [More]

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D&D & Racism I: Fictional Races & Racism

6. July 2020 Philosophy News News

Wizards of the Coast(WotC), who own Dungeons & Dragons, recently issued a statement on diversity. As would be expected, the responses were divided along ideological lines. As to why you should lis [More]

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"Patriotism is a moral mistake and an intellectual mistake, a mistake twice over," says George Kateb. "We are all subject to it"

6. July 2020 Philosophy News News

"Patriotism is a moral mistake and an intellectual mistake, a mistake twice over," says George Kateb. "We are all subject to [More]

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The bunker is one of the oldest building types made by humans, dating to around 1200 BC. Its dark charisma endures

4. July 2020 Philosophy News News

The bunker is one of the oldest building types made by humans, dating to around 1200 BC. Its dark charisma [More]

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The ten worst predictions in history: learning from past mistakes

3. July 2020 Philosophy News News

Ugo Bardi experiments with new predictive methods. This post was inspired mainly by the shock I had with the various failed attempts to predict the outcome of the Covid-19 epidemic. It was tr [More]

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Appeal to Tradition 3: The Scope Problem

3. July 2020 Philosophy News News

The appeal to tradition assumes a key part of what makes a belief or practice true or correct is its age—that is, it is old enough to be a tradition. If defenders of tradition simply went with the oldest beliefs and practices they could find, there would be no need to sort out which traditions [More]

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“Britain’s a world/By itself,” says a typically villainous Shakespearean character. The Bard has always been somewhat miscast in the role of England’s national poet

3. July 2020 Philosophy News News

“Britain’s a world/By itself,” says a typically villainous Shakespearean character. The Bard has always been somewhat miscast in the role of England’s national [More]

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Collingwood’s Aesthetics

2. July 2020 Philosophy News News

[Revised entry by Gary Kemp on July 2, 2020. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] R. G. Collingwood (1889 - 1943) was primarily a philosopher of history, a metaphysican and archaeologist, and considered his work in aesthetics - the principal work being his The Principles of Art (1938) - as secondary (for more about his general philosophy, see the entry on Robin George Collingwood). But the work in aesthetics has enjoyed a persistent readership that continues into the present. In the years after WWII he was [More]

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Why big protests aren’t a good measure of popular power

2. July 2020 Philosophy News News

The recent wave of protests of the Black Lives Matters movement in the United States and around the world has opened up a space of political possibility for proposals, like disbanding abusive police departments, which seemed radical and utopian only weeks earlier. In the broad sweep of history, a similar process has been seen time […] The post Why big protests aren’t a good measure of popular power appeared first on OUPblog. Related StoriesThe history of Canada DayWhy talk about bad actors versus good people misses the problem of systemic racismWhy global crises are political, not scientific, [More]

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