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Anna Stubblefield, a former chair of philosophy at Rutgers University, had sex with a man who can't speak. She went to jail — and for a minute, it looked like the story would end there.
Topics: philosophy, sexual-offences, disabilities, ethics, community-and-society, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedInteresting electoral outcomes in recent times have some experts asking: Is it time to reconsidered the way we pick our leaders?
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We live in a very different time to the 16th century, when Thomas More first wrote of "Utopia". But some scholars say there's still a place for utopian thinking.
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| UpdatedIt's important to remember that not all facts have been true, and not all opinions should be dismissed either, writes Peter Ellerton from the University of Queensland.
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They call the Sydney Markets the jungle: a melting pot of races and cultures, where people are free to say what they think and others learn to live with it.
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A professor of organisational behaviour thinks technology and the loss of smoking breaks have sent our 'thinking time' to the grave, so he has devised a simple healthy solution.
Topics: philosophy, human-interest, work, community-and-society, united-kingdom
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Increasing alarm across society is eroding trust between people. As fear reigns, trust may not be the only casualty.
Topics: philosophy, society, community-and-society, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedIs there really such a thing as a soulmate? Should your partner be able to sense what's up? And can Brexit be likened to a relationship gone sour? Philosopher Alain de Botton has sought answers.
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The late Nobel laureate, writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel on life and making sense of the incomprehensible.
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For the past five years farmers, retirees and working professionals living in the small Victorian wheatbelt town of Minyip have been studying philosophy under the guidance of former university lecturer Dr Homer Reith. Read more
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| UpdatedItalian author Umberto Eco — a philosopher who wrote best-selling novels, including The Name of the Rose — dies at 84, according to Italian media, quoting his family.
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Dr Homer Rieth describes the creation and success of Minyip Philosophical Society in rural Victoria, now with 24 members. Student Diane Connolly has been attending classes for five years. Read More
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| UpdatedA group of farmers, working professionals and retirees in a small Victorian grain town will this year begin their "master's" degrees in Western philosophy.
Topics: agricultural-crops, philosophy, university-and-further-education, community-education, grain, minyip-3392
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There's a strong case for having a Nobel Prize for philosophy, recognising the discipline's particular benefit to mankind. After all, in our age of propaganda there is surely cause to reward an emphasis on reason and clarity.
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An article in the New York Times turns the act of falling in love into a laboratory exercise. It's typical of how we try to take the risk out of things these days, but when it comes to love you just need to take the plunge.
Topics: community-and-society, philosophy
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Writer and broadcaster Craig Schuftan says talking about disco continues an argument about art that has been raging for centuries.
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Activated almonds, citrus foams and deconstructed desserts have become common complexities on Melbourne's menus, but when one of the world's leading chefs visited the city this week, her interest lay elsewhere.
Instead, US chef and pioneer of the slow food movement, Alice Waters, spent her visit digging her fingers into the soil of a veggie patch at Collingwood College, to pull out garlic bulbs grown by Year 6 students.
Topics: food-and-cooking, lifestyle-and-leisure, genetically-modified-food, food-processing, philosophy, education, primary-schools, schools, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedEven if there is no god theology still offers great insight into modern thinking and, yes, even science, as the late Wolfhart Pannenberg proved.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, religious-leaders, community-and-society, philosophy, education
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| UpdatedMoby speaks to Jane Hutcheon
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