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Share them with us at thephilosopher1923@gmail.com, then join Michael Bavidge, Michael Spicher, and Tara Emelye Needham for

"Ask the Philosopher"

Thurs. Feb. 5 ~ I pm ET / 6 pm UK
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YouTube video by The Philosopher Love In Time: Fannie Bialek in conversation with Isabelle Laurenzi

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Fannie Bialek with Isabelle Laurenzi on defining love, focusing on the temporal aspects of love, evaluating love, and vulnerability, death and the end of love.

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YouTube video by The Philosopher Love In Time: Fannie Bialek in conversation with Isabelle Laurenzi

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Fannie Bialek with Isabelle Laurenzi on defining love, focusing on the temporal aspects of love, evaluating love, and vulnerability, death and the end of love.

#Philosophy
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TODAY! Mon. Feb. 2 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK

"What is We?"

Join Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan in conversation with Tara Emelye Needham discussing the concept "we," which is central to the humanities and social sciences, yet undertheorized.
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YouTube video by The Philosopher The Philosopher & The News: Has Trump Proved Realists Right? Alexis Papazoglou with Linda Kinstler

Has Trump’s foreign policy proved realists right? And how does a realist ethos abroad blend into a realist ethos domestically? Listen on the latest The Philosopher & The News with
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#Philosophy Reading Group coming!!

90 min/week with host, Kate Warlow-Corcoran

"Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way" by Kieran Setiya (joining us Apr. 15th!)

Wed. Feb. 25 to Apr. 15 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
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On Being and Appearing: Social Reproduction and the Family Form This essay advances a Marxist feminist claim that the family is the capitalist form of appearance of unwaged reproductive labour. Using a Hegelian-Marxist method centered on capital’s necessary appear...

Sunday read:

"On Being and Appearing: Social Reproduction and the Family Form"

Tatiana Llaguno advances a Marxist feminist claim that the family is the capitalist form of appearance of unwaged reproductive labour.

#Philosophy #Marxism
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"What is We?"

What does the concept "we" mean?
Is it a collective or a method?
How does our understanding of "we" affect how we understand the world?

Join us for Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan with Tara Emelye Needham 1/2

Mon. Feb. 2 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
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When Liberation Becomes Subjugation: The Moral Paradox of Regime Change in Iran This essay critiques the moral and strategic failure of foreign-imposed regime change in Iran, arguing that such interventions paradoxically reinforce the Islamic Republic's legitimacy rooted in anti-...

ICYMI from July:
"When Liberation Becomes Subjugation: The Moral Paradox of Regime Change in Iran"

Dabbagh & Hassan argue that external efforts to bring about regime change risk reanimating the imperialist dynamics that the Islamic Republic long exploited to justify its rule.
#Philosophy #Iran

What is We? | Columbia University Press The concept "we" is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, yet it has been overdetermined by the question of “who ... | CUP

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan in conversation with Tara Emelye Needham

Have a look at Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan's book, "What is We?" and hope to see you on Monday!!
#booksky #boundaries #politics #linguistics
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Coming up: Mon. Feb 2 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK

"What Is We?"

If "we" is a method for enacting, apprehending, contesting, and instrumentalizing boundaries, then we can confront failure, impossibility, and the hallucinatory nature of the universe.

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TODAY! Mon. Jan 26 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
"Love in Time"

Join Fannie Bialek talking with Isabelle Laurenzi about love that embraces its susceptibility to change in contrast to a religious attempt to secure love against finitude.

Free! #philosophy #relationship #love
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YouTube video by The Philosopher The Philosopher & The News: Has Trump Proved Realists Right? Alexis Papazoglou with Linda Kinstler

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YouTube video by The Philosopher The Philosopher & The News: Has Trump Proved Realists Right? Alexis Papazoglou with Linda Kinstler

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Linda Kinstler talks with Alexis Papazoglou about the origins of realism, the Monroe Doctrine, applied realism and international law, legal legitimacy, and if Trump's strategy is realist or Machtpolitik.

#Philosophy #Politics
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Towards an Art of Punishment Benjamin George Coles argues that artistic means should often be incorporated into punishments – and indeed that we would benefit generally from thinking of punishment in more aesthetic terms. He firs...

Sunday read:

"Towards an Art of Punishment"

Benjamin George Coles argues that we would benefit from thinking of punishment in more aesthetic terms, incorporating artistic means into sentencing, with education as the primary objective.

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We sometimes change in different directions from those we love, but how can braving the unknown together endear us to our lovers?
How do we cope with love being an endeavour fraught with uncertainty?

Join us Mon. Jan. 25 for ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
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Please join us! I’m so excited to talk with one of my favorite thinkers about my new book.

Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry by Jonathan Wolff
Important and controversial areas of public policy are subjected to philosophical scrutiny as Wolff introduces and assesses core problems in public policy from a philosophical standpoint in dedicated chapters.

The Long Emancipation by Rinaldo Walcott
Walcott urges the reader to confront the past through the urgencies of the present by questioning if we can even envision a world in which Black lives are fully emancipated, and what freedom means set against brutal histories.

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Shelley treats scientific ambition as a moral problem focusing not just on the act of creation but on Frankenstein's refusal to take responsibility for his creation. Its take on power and neglect continue to be relevant today.

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
As he walks around the East Anglian coast, the unnamed narrator muses on subjects from Rembrandt's paintings to silkworm farming in Imperial Germany, exploring Enlightenment thought and art to understand the catastrophe of the Holocaust.

Losing Ourselves by Jay L. Garfield
Garfield draws on Buddhist scholar Candrakirti and David Hume to argue that the self is a "pernicious and incoherent delusion." The notion of a "person" as a legal concept enables the practical aspects of life without a self.

The Widow's Children by Paula Fox
Unflinching character studies focused mostly on matriarchal lines of inheritance and resentment, narcissism, dignity, migration, impacts of class, status, race, and ethnicity, and the lasting wounds of humiliation in intermingled personalities.

Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living by David Fideler
In the resurgence of Stoicism, there hasn't been a book mostly devoted to Seneca for a public audience. Fideler looks at anger, grief, adversity, and friendship to create a Stoic vision of the good life.

All the Rage by Josh Cohen
Cohen outlines the difference between four kinds of rage: righteous, failed, cynical, and usable. Philosophical and psychoanalytic theories are mixed with personal anecdotes to help us understand how anger can lead us down questionable paths.

The World Viewed by Stanley Cavell
Approaching film as a philosophical medium, cinema stages our skeptical relation to reality, revealing how viewing involves acknowledgment and responsibility. Cavell reads classical Hollywood as a moral practice shaping self-understanding.

What World is This? by Judith Butler
Butler uses the pandemic as a lens to explore the "grievability" of people. When the health of the economy matters more than the health of humanity, we end up with "acceptable deaths". She establishes a collective call to action.

Willful Subjects by Sara Ahmed
A philosophical exploration of willfulness: how some bodies come to be judged as stubborn, difficult, or disobedient, and how these judgments are shaped by histories of authority, gender, race, and power. This is not an easy read, but stay with it.