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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Alexander Diugin (“Putin’s brain”) justifies far-reaching Russian interferene in Western democracies, on the basis of a radical neofascist worldview-and his views are being taken very seriously.
Emails are here to stay, even if they knock down the odd Presidential aspirant or two. But that does not prevent us from thinking about their many ambivalencies.
Stoicism has recently been described as one of the best “mind hacks” ever invented. Amazingly, it is back, more popular today than ever, in a series of fast-growing internet communities.
Roger Stone, “the prince of darkness”, has been called “Trump’s brain”. So what is going on in there? And what does it mean when ruthless cunning becomes the new morality?
The real struggle, and victory, of Spartacus star Andy Whitfield was not in a computer-generated arena.
In 2007, Canadian political theorist Tamir Bar-On wrote a book with a provocative title: Where have all the fascists gone? In 2017, Bar-On’s question may seem to many readers no longer that perplexing…
What are the arguments of both sides in the “political correctness” wars that have flared up in the US and Australia in recent times? Is there light amidst so much heat?
Rhetoric can tell us a great deal about a person, or a President. Donald Trump’s inaugural address was light (but dark) on metaphors, and full of divisive antitheses.
No one said he’d win the Presidency. He has. Many fear that Trump will be a tyrant. Will he be?
Writers from Thucydides to Montesquieu have dissected tyranny. Their words assume new pertinence given these fears, and may cast analytic light on coming events.
Leonard Cohen, the Jewish-Canadian songwriter has passed away, in this extraordinary week. He will be missed, but not forgotten.