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Posted on February 1, 2019February 13, 2019Uncategorized

Teaching Ethics: What’s the Harm?

In their (not infrequent) darker moments, academics have been known to observe wryly that students’ grandparents seem to die at a much higher frequency near…

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Posted on September 12, 2018February 13, 2019Uncategorized

Free Speech or Public Harm?

One thing you have to give Steve Bannon: he knows how to get people yelling at each other. The former Trump chief strategist and Breitbart…

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Posted on June 28, 2018September 25, 2018Ethics

‘What is necessary is to rectify names’: Ramsay’s Game is sheer indoctrination

In 1994, an impish Northern Irishman stood in front of a room full of smelly, doubtful-looking sixteen-year-old boys, and declared “By the end of this…

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Posted on May 19, 2018June 6, 2018Ethics

Meet the Infrels: A Thought Experiment

Think about people who have no friends. Imagine that there are many reasons why they have no friends. Some might be very shy or simply…

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Posted on April 11, 2017September 6, 2017Uncategorized

John Clarke: an unsurpassed craftsman of the Australasian voice

There are some writers whose voice, by sheer accident of timing in your life, reach far deeper into your brain than the specifics of what…

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Posted on March 31, 2017September 3, 2018Uncategorized

The Vice President Dines: A Philosophical Dialogue

  [In a swanky Washington DC restaurant, L’Metaphysique, VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE is enjoying an intimate dinner with his wife and constant companion KAREN PENCE]…

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Posted on January 27, 2017September 6, 2017Ethics

Is it OK to punch Nazis?

Hey, remember 2016? When all those beloved celebrities kept dying and we couldn’t wait for the year to be over? We’re now less than a…

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Posted on September 14, 2016September 6, 2017Uncategorized

Senator, You’re No Socrates

So, we all knew Malcolm Roberts, former project leader of the climate denialist Galileo Movement turned One Nation politician, would make an ‘interesting’ first speech…

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Posted on August 7, 2016September 6, 2017Ethics

The ‘no’ campaign on marriage equality owes us better arguments

  With the re-election of the Turnbull government, the likelihood that marriage equality in Australia will be the subject of a harmful, expensive, and non-binding…

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Posted on July 7, 2016September 6, 2017Uncategorized

Please don’t explain: Hanson 2.0 and the war on experts

Along with Aqua’s “Barbie Girl”, Pauline Hanson has long stood as a grim reminder that the second half of the 1990s was much worse than…

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Associate Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University. Contributor to New Philosopher, The Conversation, ABC Radio Melbourne, Radio National.

Winner of the Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Prize, 2014

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