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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories
Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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Review of Becoming Who We Are: Politics and Practical Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell by Andrew Norris.
Eric Joseph Ritter
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The Turing Test as a Sceptical Scenario
ABSTRACT The Turing test is usually seen as an operationalisation of the question whether machines can think. In this paper, my aim is to show that by understanding the test in this way, one ends up in scepticism about the existence of minds in general. By focusing on whether some particular machine can pass the test, or whether it can be said to be an
Marvin Tritschler
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“The Growth of Interest”. Richard Wollheim on F. H. Bradley's Moral Psychology
Abstract This paper aims to reconstruct two key stages of Richard Wollheim's engagement with the moral psychology of F. H. Bradley—first in his 1959/1969 book on Bradley, and later in his 1993 collection of essays, The Mind and its Depths—and to connect them to Wollheim's own account of a dynamic moral psychology, as detailed in The Thread of Life ...
Paolo Babbiotti
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Of Carcasses and Christ: Rereading the Repugnant Ecological Other
ABSTRACT This essay claims that a collection of hunting and fishing devotionals provincializes a common trope in environmental literatures: the figure of the repugnantly anti‐ecological conservative Protestant. A close reading of these texts reveals their authors’ and ideal audiences’ extensive knowledge of land and animal minds, which deflates their ...
Colin B. Weaver
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American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 424-426, June 2026.
Andrew Brandel
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We hurried to get the front row seats. Even to nineteen-year-olds, it was clear that what was happening in that lecture hall—fittingly, it was Emerson 105—was worth waking up for, worth pushing to the front for, as if we couldn’t get close enough. And what we couldn’t get close enough to was Stanley Cavell lecturing on Western philosophy—a course ...
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Small Talk and the Cinema: Conversation, Philosophy and the Case of Sullivan's Travels
This article seeks to bring small talk about cinema – the type of conversation that can begin with the question “Have you seen any good movies lately?” – into the analytical ambit of cinema and media studies.
Cooper Long
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Levd skepticism i Karin Boyes Kallocain
This article examines what Karin Boye's dystopian novel Kallocain (1940) knows about other-minds skepticism, and the conditions for understanding the inner lives of other people.
Ingeborg Löfgren
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Srishti Krishnamoorthy-Cavell
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