Consequences of Newtonianism: Another History of the Modern Human Subject (3)

In the early years of the eighteenth century, when Leibniz and Clarke debated, there were at least two plausible ways for European thinkers to imagine the cosmos and, by implication, …
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Introduction: A Philosophical Crisis

In the UK, over the last several years, philosophy has come under sustained state-sanctioned attack. The closure of the University of Kent’s Department of Philosophy, the …
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2026 strikes me as the year in which AI’s fiercest critics began writing their critiques with the help of artificial intelligence. I notice because they use it clumsily and barely …
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The apparent conflict at the heart of Toy Story 5 (Andrew Stanton, 2026) is easy to understand. Sheriff Jessie (Joan Cusack), together with Woody (Tom Hanks), Bullseye, and the other traditional toys, …
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