Fiscal crisis and firewalls.

Today’s post is on Dr. Owen Ware’s exceptional new translation of Novalis’s novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen, a key text in early Romanticism. In addition to a beautiful translation, the new edition …

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O carte de filosofie te învață cum să respecți copiii, într-o lume a adulților care, de multe ori, îi desconsideră și îi uită.

Abstract. Feminism has always been a diverse intellectual tradition and activist movement, difficult to define as such. Today that difficulty is compounded

…for basically calling (with ample justification) a racist far right Israeli settler a student of the Nazis. The small claims court, remarkably, foudn in favor of the plaintiff. Professor Har…

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Humanity at a Turning Point: Reaffirming or Reimagining Political Common Sense? CEU’s Annual Doctoral Conference (ADC) provides an interdisciplinary space to present works in progress, receive c...

Few things are more mundane than becoming a parent. One, or one’s partner, gives birth to a child; one takes the baby home, if birthing happened in a hospital, or simply keeps the baby and raises her....

In the classroom, boredom is the kiss of death; eyes would like to roll, hands to seek the phone – but they don’t, because my students are mostly polite and because I ban mobile phones in class. Ev…

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There is broad egalitarian agreement that inheritance results in distributive injustice and indirectly delegitimises the political process; we should abolish it. But until we do this, and put in place...

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights is an outstanding resource covering key questions, problems, and debates in scholarship on the nature, justification, authority and relevance o...

It is not easy to be an egalitarian with a conservative sensitivity, especially in unjust societies. You can be one by turning to value pluralism – as G. A. Cohen and ...

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Fellowships in the field of economic and social ethics.Applications to be sent no later than April 21st, 2025.The Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics hosts every year a number of short-term vis...

If Gen AI can consistently produce A grade articles across disciplines (for now, it seems they can’t, but they likely might), do we still need students to learn the art of writing well-researched l…

Pallikkathayil argues that restrictions on abortion are inconsistent with the usual demands that states place on their citizens. States don't require their citizens to make their bodies available for...

When should we say that two people are treated as equals from a distributive point of view? The straightforward response is that they are equal if they hold an identical bundle of resources. But si…

The Political, Legal, and Moral Philosophy Research Group (POLEMO) at Central European University cordially invites abstract submissions for its annual conference, the 6th POLEMO Symposium, which will...

The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to $33 million for failures to prevent kids from holding accounts.

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I am currently designing an undergraduate course on ‘contemporary non-western political theory’, a task fraught with difficulties. Ever since I moved to Europe for my postgraduate studies, I have f…