Category: Guest Post

Peter Winch on Political Legitimacy

28 August 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Lynette Reid, editor of Political Authority: Contract and Critique   I was a student (along with Olli Lagerspetz and others) of the British philosopher Peter Winch (1926–1997) in the last years of his life – the 1990s in Illinois. This was an era when...

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When it comes to songs, there’s more than meets the ear

18 August 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Glenn Fosbraey, author of Reading Song Lyrics: An Interdisciplinary and Multimodal Approach In today’s world, where streaming services allow us instant access to pretty much every song ever recorded, I like to keep certain ‘hard copy’ traditions alive. One of these, which stretches back...

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Why politicians moralise and citizens follow suit: the moral dimensions of politics

28 July 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Ulf Hedetoft, author of The Morality of Politics: States, Honour and War   Today everyone is a moralist. Citizens as well as politicians routinely draw lines between good and bad, between who they side with and who they regard as enemies. They know –...

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Mourning the dissolution of the monasteries

6 July 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Lisa Hopkins, author of Bare Ruined Choirs: Sacred Spaces in Four Early Modern Plays When Shakespeare writes in Sonnet 73 of ‘Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang’, he was referring to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, begun in 1536 by King...

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Why did Russell abandon his 1913 theory of knowledge manuscript?

29 June 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by James R. Connelly, author of Wittgenstein’s Critique of Russell’s Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement   In May–June 1913, Bertrand Russell wrote roughly 350 pages of a draft manuscript provisionally titled Theory of Knowledge. His goal was to apply logical methods developed in Principia Mathematica...

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A strong, stable and prosperous Africa benefits the entire world

25 May 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Loic De Canniere, author of The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare   In 2025, eleven of the world’s twenty fastest-growing economies are in sub-Saharan Africa – including South Sudan and Senegal, which both rank in the top five. Since...

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Tackling the challenges of emotional intelligence in the workplace

11 April 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Jamey M. Long and Joseph A. Pisani, authors of The Responsibility of Reason in Leadership, Management, and Life Long Learning Emotions affect stakeholders throughout an organisation. How we can understand and manage emotions becomes an important skill for success in our current workplace landscape....

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Finding oneself in art’s visionary moment

26 March 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Sidney Homan, author of Art’s Visionary Moment I speak here only for myself, not out of modesty or even a fear of generalization, but because I have had increasing doubts about the value of my own scholarship—I stress, again, the “my own.” In point...

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Wittgenstein’s philosophy of others

19 March 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Constantine Sandis, author of Wittgenstein on Other Minds: Strangers in a Strange Land If some people looked like elephants and others like cats, or fish, one wouldn’t expect them to understand each other and things would look much more like what they really are....

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A long-term view of feelings about immigrants

5 March 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Ben Braber, author of Changes in Attitudes to Immigrants in Britain, 1921-2021: From Alien to Migrant The public debate about immigration is raging in Britain and abroad, but English language use keeps changing. That usage denotes changing attitudes to immigrants. Academic researchers have noticed...

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