An honest leader’s farewell
“As Julian Baggini steps down from his role as academic director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, he shuns the usual comforting, ego-boosting valedictory and reckons with his own shortcomings.”
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Author: Julian Baggini
unSILOed podcast
Talking to Greg LaBlanc about the legacy of Hume in this episode, while also diving into how someone can stay a generalist in the modern philosophy world, the scarcity of common sense and the sincerity of moral arguments.
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Fauxthenticity
Our problem is not that we have too much individuality but we have the wrong kind, an ersatz version that leaves us closer to the dystopia of uniformity than we dare to believe.
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The return of the thriftifarian
Haves posing as have nots is a distasteful phenomenon that papers over how unequal British society really is.
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