Comedy as Philosophy
Chapter for The Philosophy of Comedy, edited by Simon Kirchin, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement Volume 96, October 2024
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Tag: Reason & rationality
Review: Beyond Stoicism
The worst readers, Nietzsche claimed, are like “plundering troops” who loot the few ideas they can use and trash the rest. But what if the texts in question are a hodgepodge of good sense and nonsense? Isn’t selective pillage the best, not worst, way to read them?
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Memory Lane: Review
Review of Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember by Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy for the Wall Street Journal
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Grasping Reality
Julian Baggini uncovers how neuroscientists are challenging our understanding of reality and piecing together how we perceive the world around us
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Farming across the divide
Splits in the food world might appear comparatively unimportant but, aside from mattering in their own right, food offers a perfect case study for how division arises, grows and might be healed.
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