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Before he was booted off the ABC’s Q+A by host Stan Grant in a dramatic television moment, Sasha Gillies-Lekakis made history as the first student from the University of Melbourne to undertake an exchange program in communist Cuba.
Gillies-Lekakis has written glowingly about his experience on the Caribbean island, saying the one-party state had long been “misrepresented and misunderstood around the world”.
In a subsequent piece for socialist magazine the Monthly Review, Gillies-Lekakis showered praise on Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua’s left-wing governments for their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. His conclusion: “socialism is far more effective than capitalism in reducing both the human and economic costs of the COVID-19 crisis”.
In his controversial Q&A question on Thursday defending the Russian viewpoint on Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Gillies-Lekakis described himself as a member of the “the Russian community here in Australia”.
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- What are the main contributions that philosophers have made to Internet studies? — Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) starts a list and gets some help from the crowd
- “If a being is conscious at all, what it is like to be that being involves an organisation toward staying alive” — Gary Francione (Rutgers) on what this means for the moral treatment of animals
- Paste text into “Only The Questions,” and the result will be an “x-ray” of it that shows you… only the questions — Clive Thompson describes why he made this tool, and provides some examples and a link so you can try it yourself
- The Future Fund wants to support organizations and individuals whose work will make the future go well — and is funding projects in artificial intelligence, values and reflective processes, and epistemic institutions, altruism, and other areas philosophers might contribute to
- “Eros commits crimes of passion because, first and foremost, it commits crimes of thought. It attacks the heart by way of the mind. Eros is an intellectual monster” — Agnes Callard (Chicago) had a terrible romance. What can be learned from it?
- “We are often poorly positioned to make sound judgments about whether someone is virtue signaling… the epistemically virtuous… thing to do is to avoid making such judgments” — Mark Satta (Wayne State) & A.K. Flowerree (Texas Tech) on intellectual humility and public discourse
- “My grandfather… was summoned to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the winter of 1958” — Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (Sam Houston State Univ.) on the lessons his grandfather’s ordeal holds for today’s disputes over teaching about racism
- The Medieval Problem of Universals by Gyula Klima.
- Ernst Cassirer by Michael Friedman.
- Gregory of Rimini by Christopher Schabel and Charles Girard.
- Alonzo Church by Harry Deutsch and Oliver Marshall.
- William Crathorn by Aurélien Robert.
- Liberalism by Shane D. Courtland, Gerald Gaus, and David Schmidtz.
- Quantum-Bayesian and Pragmatist Views of Quantum Theory by Richard Healey.
- Certainty by Baron Reed.
- Paraconsistent Logic by Graham Priest, Koji Tanaka, and Zach Weber.
- Nietzsche’s Ethics by Claire Elizabeth Kirwin.
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- Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman is reviewed by Kathryn Hughes at The Daily Mail.
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