Cogito
Authors
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sydney
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Associate Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Philosophy, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor in Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
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Duncan Ivison is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Sydney
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Honorary Associate in Philosophy, University of Sydney
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Preface What I’m about to discuss does not apply to all veterans. That’s worth noting up front. There’s a danger in universalising what are specific, varied, and limited experiences. It’s also important…
In a recent post at Cogito on the problem of cultural and political Manichaeism, I mentioned the apocalyptic manifesto of Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik. Breivik was convicted of 77 murders that he…
Here is a definition in search of a term: what do we call a calculated political strategy to confuse the citizenry in order to gain an electoral advantage? For anyone who thinks clearly, and wants to minimise…
A favourite text during the Middle Ages was The Consolation of Philosophy, written by the medieval philosopher, Boethius. In it, we get an unusual style of philosophy that was accessible for a wide audience…
Over the past 24 hours, Gawker, the controversial gossip blog owned by Gawker Media, has earned some extraordinary and entirely justified opprobrium. It brought this on itself by posting a prurient and…
In a recent cogito blog post, Clive Hamilton claims that the greatest crimes of recent years will surely prove to be human interference with and disruption of the Earth’s climate. He writes, “Above all…
You can read part 1 of this essay here. Yesterday in Part 1 I argued that the most enduring of the great crimes of the 20th century will surely prove to be human disruption of the Earth’s climate. Its…
It has been a good week for philosophy. The results of a year long study on the benefits of teaching philosophy to primary school aged children has just been published in the UK and the reports are positive…
Is ethics up to the task of judging us for causing climate change?
Our political Manichaeism Throughout his recent book Moral Tribes (2013), American psychologist and experimental philosopher Joshua Greene portrays a cultural and political tribalism that divides modern…