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June 1, 2026. To: Dr. Leiter. Open access unlimited and unending. Today Date: 2026 June 1. Unending until 2715. Free…
Andrei Rodin is circulating a letter demanding the liberation of Svetlana Mesyats: https://philomatica.org/2026/05/open-letter-in-support-of-svetlana-messiats/. The prosecution has demanded a sentence of…
Carlos Alberto Sánchez’s A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture (Amherst College Press, 2020) is a finalist for the 2026…
The treatment of these scholars is atrocious and terrifying. Perhaps it is worth comparing Vladimir Putin’s conception of scholarship and…
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.…
Philosophers Justin Tosi (Texas Tech) and Brandon Warmke (Bowling Green) comment. The discussion is quite nuanced, making it all the more remarkable that it appears on the CNN website!
(Thanks to Alan White for the pointer.)
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