9 years ago
Are Ethicists an Obstacle to Progress?
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Debates
WHEN PEOPLE who don’t know me ask me what I do, I tell them I’m a philosopher. When they ask me what I specialize in, I tell them that I am …
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9 years ago
Smart as an Oak?
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Debates
It is a long-standing bias to consider human beings the sole intelligent creatures on earth. If intelligence is defined on the basis of our behavioral traits, including the capacities to …
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9 years ago
The Unbearable Slowness of Change: Protest Politics and the Erotics of Resistance
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Debates
In the past decades there has been a proliferation of protest movements that interpellate a global demos, which has been wronged by the neoliberal beast. From Puerta del Sol to …
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9 years ago
Katrina@10
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Debates
In late August 2005, for several hundred thousand Americans, Hurricane Katrina presented a problem of survival. On Monday, August 29, 2005, at 6:10 a.m., Katrina made landfall at Buras, Louisiana. …
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