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Dec 13, 2024 · The late Daniel C Dennett (1942-2024) was a man of many parts. Sailor, sculptor, singer, pianist, raconteur, aficionado of ribald limericks, much-loved mentor to many young (and not so young) academics, trenchant critic of religion, and the prime mover behind The Philosophical Lexicon (9th ed, 2008), a dictionary of satirical neologisms based on the names of influential philosophers.

Dec 20, 2024 · At present, describing historians as political actors evokes bias, political manoeuvring and a lack of critical thinking. This description conjures up historians merely as political pundits, rummaging through history in search of evidence to support their own political goals and potentially falling into presentism.

Philosophy Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore life’s big questions and the history of ideas from Socrates to Simone de Beauvoir, political philosophy to philosophy of mind, the Western canon and the non-Western world.

Dec 6, 2024 · Collin Jennings. is a writer and academic. He is the author of Enlightenment Links: Theories of Mind and Media in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2024). Formerly an assistant professor of English at Miami University in Ohio, he now lives in South Orange, New Jersey.

Dec 16, 2024 · Law was central to the British colonial project to subjugate the colonised populations and maximise their exploitation. Convinced of its superiority, British forces sought to exchange their law for the maximum extraction of resources from the colonised territories.

Jan 16, 2023 · At the start of the 22nd century, humanity left Earth for the stars. The enormous ecological and climatic devastation that had characterised the last 100 years had led to a world barren and inhospitable; we had used up Earth entirely. Rapid melting of ice caused the seas to rise, swallowing cities whole.

Dec 9, 2024 · In the 1930s, a Belgian priest and physicist named Georges Lemaître transformed our understanding of the Universe when he envisioned its birth as a cosmic explosion.

Science Essays from Aeon. World-leading scientists and science writers explore topics from theories of evolution to theories of consciousness, quantum physics to deep time, chemistry to cosmology.

Oct 16, 2023 · Praying in shoes The Sunni movement of Salafism was born at the beginning of the 20th century, with the goal of modelling life on the 7th. by Aaron Rock-Singer + BIO