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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.…
Black Sabbath's first album was released 50 years ago today. I still think it's their best, and one of the best albums in a year full of excellent ones.
(Thanks to James Bondarchuk for the pointer.)
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