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There will be many, many human tragedies to result from this senseless decision by our senior management. But what a…
Cambridge makes new volumes in its Elements series freely available for a couple of weeks following publication. My own “Innateness…
Matthew Ratcliffe. 2023. Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience. MIT Press (open access with no time limit) https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5524/Grief-WorldsA-Study-of-Emotional-Experience “Experiences…
Free Robot Labour: Marx, Automation, and the Future of AI by Jamie Terence Kelly https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-26782-5 Palgrave Macmillan, 2026 Permanently Open…
Nietzsche’s Ecce homo, Notebooks and Letters: 1888-1889. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. ©2023 Daniel Fidel Ferrer. All rights reserved. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs…
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…
We noted the controversy last year (e.g., here and here), and now Professor Ramseyer (Harvard) has prepared a vigorous defense, which he kindly gave permission to share: Download Ramseyer response to critics SSRN-id4000145.
UPDATE: One of the few responses published in an academic journal is this one, which Professor Ramseyer mentions in his reply.
My new book Aging and the Ethics of Longevity Science has just been published as an open access book with…