Just published –––
Coming to Terms with the Need for Meaning: How an Existential Demand Awakens in Camus’s L’Étranger
by Thom Hamer
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Half victim, half accomplice, like everyone
Just published –––
Coming to Terms with the Need for Meaning: How an Existential Demand Awakens in Camus’s L’Étranger
by Thom Hamer
🌟 open access ! 🌟 free to all ! 🌟
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This is why people try to destroy music, why the music industry, streaming industry, AI are all designed to function in a way that crushes and humiliates music. Because for people who dislike music, there is no other outlet. This is the only way our society accepts an expression of not liking music.
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at St George's Bristol on World Philosophy Day 2026 ––
Philosophy Salon: Existentialism as Therapy?
Julian Baggini
with
Emmy van Duerzen
and Jonathan Webber
Thursday 19 November, 7.30pm
Full details: bit.ly/PSEAT
British Society of Aesthetics and Welsh Aesthetics Forum present …
Environmental Aesthetics & Valuing the Natural World
9.00 - 17.30
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Council Chamber, Main Building, Cardiff University
Free! All welcome!
Register here:
On a table! Very exciting. I was a regular there when it was still dillons. (Always, for some reason, dillons. Never Dillon’s or even Dillons.)
Philosophers who regularly read Daily Nous or Leiter and will then respond to a survey about philosophy could well be a distinctive subset of the discipline.
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I’ve spent many wasted hours in meetings that concluded in minutes.
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In today’s episode exploring how 20th-century philosophy and biography intersect David talks to philosopher and biographer @philosofemme.bsky.social about Jean-Paul Sartre, a thinker whose life has been as closely scrutinised as his ideas.
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Incidentally on both occasions - Tuesday's statement and PMQs - gilt rates spiked the moment markets opened (the hallmark of imported volatility) and actually came down while Burnham was on his feet. Every single part of the media machine confecting the narrative understands this and does it anyway.
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