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Immanuel Kant: Introduction & Reading List

September 12, 2022 lwall002

Immanuel Kant – one of the most influential, consequential, and ground-breaking philosophers in history – changed the way we think…

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Immigration: A look at the studies

August 24, 2022 lwall002

Immigration, migration, border walls, channel crossings refugee crises, asylum-seeking – these hot words tend to dominate the news cycle at…

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5 Useful Things I’ve Learned from the Existentialists

May 6, 2021 lwall002

1. Laugh at Yourself I can take the world and myself too seriously occasionally. Seriousness, a glance at the dictionary…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: dostoevsky, existentialism, existentialists, kierkegaard, nietzsche, sartre

Francis Bacon: Introduction

November 9, 2020 lwall002

If the development of science has been the most consequential, progressive, development in our history, then Francis Bacon, has a…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: francis bacon, introduction, new instrument, philosophy, scientific method

From Nozick to the Lake District

August 7, 2020 lwall002 1 Comment

I’m all over the place this week. From my last video on Foucault, I’m moving onto a philosopher that could…

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Posted in: Newsletter, Uncategorized Filed under: anarchy state and utopia, foucault, foucaulty, lake district, robert nozick, the world is too much with us, wordsworth

Spanish Flu Masks

July 25, 2020 lwall002 1 Comment

I’m researching (for part of an MA dissertation and novel) the use of masks during contagious disease pandemics through history.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized, Virus Filed under: covid-19, influenza, masks, spanish flu

Modernity, Rawls, & Identity

July 16, 2020 lwall002 3 Comments

This week two things have been on my mind: modernity and identity. The first is a perennial topic I keep…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: a theory of justice, flesh of modernity, identity politics, john rawls, rawls, utilitarianism

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