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Ian Olasov
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"Public": An Essay by Ian Olasov (Keywords: Humanities; Intellectuals; Education; History of Philosophy; Activism)
"Whatever else the history of philosophy is, it is the history of the tensions between philosophy’s public-facing and scholastic tendencies"
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"Released from Prison?": Contributions from the Reimagining Re-entry Public Philosophy Group (Keywords: Punishment; Phenomenology; Home; Institutionalization; Education; Power)
"Home is our anchor point within reality which gives us orientation and allows us to set out in new directions."
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Angie Hobbs
15 min read
"Philosophy in the Agora: Past, Present and Future": An Essay by Angie Hobbs (Keywords: Public Philosophy; Argument; Stoicism)
"Philosophy, including and perhaps especially, public philosophy, is often best done in dialogue, as Socrates well knew."
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Naomi Waltham-Smith
15 min read
"Take it or Leave it": An Essay by Naomi Waltham-Smith (Keywords: Academic Freedom; Free Speech)
"What is it that we defend under the banner of “academic freedom”? At what possible costs?"
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