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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One of China’s foremost environmental analysts recently explained to me that while for many years climate change was characterized as a western conspiracy to hold China back, it all changed around 2012…
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There are two possible outcomes from the huge anti-Trump marches the day after the new president’s inauguration. Perhaps, having made their protest, the marchers will go home and spend the next four or…
For years Noel Pearson has been using people like me as a punching bag, and I’m sick of it. Having cajoled and bullied one government after another into pouring millions into his pet schemes, thereby depriving…
Can we get real about the meaning of Donald Trump’s victory? The day before the presidential election everyone believed Hillary Clinton would win. The polls consistently showed she was some 3 or more percentage…
The new social movements that coalesced in the 1970s around demands for peace, women’s rights, gay liberation and Indigenous rights transformed Australia’s social landscape completely. It is impossible…
Astonishment was universal last December when the Paris Agreement on climate change included the aspiration to limit warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, a much tougher target than the standard…
There are the pragmatists willing to compromise to get at least something, and then there are the idealists who stick to their principles and end up with nothing. Or so the argument goes. This tired old…