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Article [PDF]Reinventing 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong' (jhaponline.org)
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PodcastPatricia Churchland argues that morality is rooted in our Darwinian biology. She links morality to warm-bloodedness, which required an adaptation to care for others (originally, infants). This is the biological basis for unselfish concern, and later, moral intuitions. (on-humans.podcastpage.io)
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BlogBruno Latour Tracks Down Gaia: "Such a world has nothing to do with ecology, but quite simply with a politics of living things". An essay by Latour in which he discusses the work of the Gaia theorist James Lovelock. Bruno Latour (1947-2022) was a French philosopher and sociologist of science. (lareviewofbooks.org)
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Article [PDF]Mackie and the Meaning of Moral Terms (jhaponline.org)
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BlogNomadology, Deleuze and Guattari posited, "was recognizable as a state of 'becoming, heterogeneity, infinitesimal, passage to the limit, continuous variation' (363), which in social organization presented itself as a rhizome structure instead of being centralized around a power core." (jhiblog.org)
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