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While there is an abundance of violence in the real world, there is also considerable focus on the virtual violence of [...]
Source: Talking PhilosophyTalking Philosophy || Date : 10 May 2013 | 6:32 pm

The science-philosophy connection

In this article published in the Guardian, the theoretical physicist Michael Krämer says all the right things about [...]
Source: Talking PhilosophyTalking Philosophy || Date : 8 May 2013 | 12:00 am

Nussbaum on philosophy, art, emotion, etc

It’s Martha Nussbaum’s birthday, or anyway it was yesterday, and to celebrate, here’s part of an [...]
Source: Talking PhilosophyTalking Philosophy || Date : 7 May 2013 | 3:08 pm

Motives for Terror

After the evil and senseless bombing in Boston, there was considerable speculation about the motives of the bombers. Not [...]
Source: Talking PhilosophyTalking Philosophy || Date : 6 May 2013 | 2:00 pm

Gun Research

One important component of rational decision making is acquiring the best available evidence regarding the subject at [...]
Source: Talking PhilosophyTalking Philosophy || Date : 2 May 2013 | 4:44 pm

Today's Article From The Philosophers' Magazine

A Theory of Justice: The Musical – a romp through 2,500 years of philosophy

By TPM

Rebecca Reilly-Cooper is astonished by “A Theory of Justice: The Musical”, a hilarious combination of musical theatre and political philosophy. This article appears in Issue 61 of The Philosophers’ Magazine. Please support TPM by subscribing. The priority of equal basic liberties over fair equality …

Announcements

The Backdoor Broadcasting Company has a number of interesting philosophy podcasts on its site, most recently from The University of London’s Institute of Philosophy conference on The Future of Philosophy: Metaphilosophical Directions for the 21st Century. Full archive of philosophy-tagged podcasts is here. Regular readers will I’m sure already be familiar with tpm’s own Baggini’s Philosophy Monthly podcast and the regular iTunes philosophy chart-topper Philosophy Bites.
The latest issue of tpm is now in UK shops and with UK subscribers, and will be arriving state-side soon. From December 7th, selected content from the magazine will start to appear on this website. You can subscribe to tpm here.
UK based teachers of philosophy A Level or IB may be interested in a series of one-day student conferences at which tpm editor Julian Baggini will be speaking in February and March. More details here.
tpm editor Julian Baggini is taking part in a 24-hour squashathon this evening, in aid of The Alzheimers Society. You can support this very worthwhile cause by donating online here. We should point out that Julian will not personally be playing on-stop for 24 hours!

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