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Georgy Maksimovich pointed me to this article in Russian: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2026/05/25/antisovetskie-filosofskie-kontratseptsii
David J. Gunkel «Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond» (MIT, 2023) Link:…
Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue (Italy) Rationalized and Extended Democracy – The REDemo Project. Foreword by Gilberto Corbellini. Firenze University Press 2023.…
Porphyry of Tyre on Theology and Theurgy (Harvard University Press & Center for the Study of World Religions, 2026) Permanently…
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Saul Smilansky PARADOXICAL ETHICS (Oxford University Press, 2026). Available by Open Access. https://academic.oup.com/book/62721?login=false Paradoxical Ethics is a unique book, exploring…
I'm told the department will be making an announcement today regarding the issues noted in this earlier post. Already, philosopher Trenty Dougherty is no longer listed on the department's faculty page. I will add a link to Baylor's public statement later today.
UPDATE: The Baylor announcement.
ANOTHER: Thanks to readers who sent along Professor Dougherty's "alternative" account of what transpired. It was obviously self-serving and fictional, so I decided it was best to ignore it.
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