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Social Identity
In today’s Guardian there is an article entitled Who do you think I am? with the tag line “It’s all too easy to categorise people but it isn’t inevitable. We can still consider the alternatives.” The...
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Social Indentity
As usual, Dan Little has posted some thoughtful reflections on the multifarious tributaries that feed into the complex that is social identity. It brings to mind a recent correspondence I had with...
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Social Indentity
Colin McGinn poses a fair question: if Obama is half white why is he considered black? Colin is of course making the point that essentialism in these issues is not sustainable and this is reflected in...
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A Constitution of Minds
In today’s Boston Globe Mickey Edwards reviews Cass Sunstein’s latest book A Constitution of Many Minds. Though I haven’t read the book, Edwards’ rather snippy and ill-informed review calls for some...
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All about me: Disclosure in online social networking profiles: The case of...
With today’s release of the film The Social Network some might be interested in a recent academic study published in Computers in Human Behavior.
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Smith on Searle and De Soto
A fascinating talk by (ontology kingpin) Barry Smith entitled “John Searle and Hernando de Soto: The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality.“
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Group agency
Here’s a recent co-authored book from Christian List. CL is probably the leading theorist in this area and one of the best philosophers around who, not so long ago, was not affiliated with a philosophy...
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Sex on the Brain
Hat-tip to my chum David Livingstone Smith for bringing my attention to this article in Slate.
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Three Rival Views of Tradition (Arendt, Oakeshott and MacIntyre)
A recent paper from Journal of the Philosophy of History.
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