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Amy Taggart 🍎 @amytaggart.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

An interesting read ahead of Climate Action Week.

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So interesting! I have so much I want to learn more about.

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Ben Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The more I delve back into Vedanta, the more I see shades of @axdouglas.bsky.social interpretation of Spinoza. In this account, we come to know the Ultimate Self (the all-inclusive identity) by letting go of fixed or truncated images of self. To know that no identity can exhaust us is to know God.

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British Society for the History of Philosophy @thebshp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Don't miss the annual BSHP Antognazza Lecture: Donald Rutherford on Ethics for Humans! The venue isn't currently listed, but it's: School VI, St Salvator's Quad: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/event-locati... More info here: bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My mum is in an angklung orchestra. They played at Floriade in Canberra, and she tells me this was the world's first pairing of angklung and didgeridoo.

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I like how he counts on his fingers but has to stop after three.

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Dr Kathrine Cuccuru @aphilosopher.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Tickets now available for our next PHILOSOPHY BOOKCLUB featuring Alexander Douglas (@axdouglas.bsky.social ) reading from Against Identity Saturday 14 November 2026, 11-12.30, Blackness Library, Dundee. tickts.co.uk/events/philo...

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Philosophy Bookclub: Against Identity

Meet Alexander Douglas, who was born in Canberra, Australia, where he studied music and philosophy. He now teaches history of philosophy and the philosophy of economics at the University of St Andrews...

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud. People like to forget that.

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Philip Larkin’s mum and dad fucked him up. People like to forget that.

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Dr Kathrine Cuccuru @aphilosopher.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

TODAY! Join me for performance philosophy fun! ‘A PHILOSOPHER WALKS’ THOUGHTFUL STORIES OF A TRAMP is 5pm (Weds 26th) in the Paint Room, The Little Theatre, 58 Victoria rd, Dundee @dundeefringe.bsky.social Tickets £5, available on door.

Show poster with a picture of Kathrine in hiking wear sitting surrounded by eucalypts

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wow, thank you for reading my book, and for saying this! ☺️

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opfuchs.gay @opfuchs.gay · 15/09/2026

It’s exceedingly rare for a book to be an insightful work of philosophy, well-grounded in existing scholarship and yet written (and well-written!) at a popular level. This succeeds

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Dr Kathrine Cuccuru @aphilosopher.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Down to two! sleeps…

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm trying a new thing of only writing <3m reads. Here's my first go: axdouglas.substack.com/p/power-flow...

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Power Flows to Boringness

I did very well on my first undergraduate philosophy essay.

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Daodejing that can be translated is not the true Daodejing. (I wish I could say I thought of that, but it was @ottolehto.bsky.social).

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On not reading translations of the Daodejing… axdouglas.substack.com/p/which-daod...

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Which Daodejing translation should you read?

Answer: NO!

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yes! It's a red flag when somebody always has time to write, never time to read / always time to talk, never time to listen...

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I wrote about the idea from Zhuangzi we need the most: fasting the mind

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There was no humility and no curiosity and therefore, I concluded, no intelligence.

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My stake was that back in the 2010s postkeynesians were trying to challenge him on capital theory. He first dismissed us all for saying the same things (“are your responses written by bots?”). Then he refused to read any books or articles and demanded “slides“ to explain the theory.

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think we disagreed about him in the past, so hello I am coming out of the woodwork to do precisely the thing you describe 👋

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I loved this conversation on the Korea Deconstructed podcast! Many thanks to David Tizzard for having me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZDS...

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How Taoism Helps You Escape Yourself (Dr. Alexander Douglas) | Korea Deconstructed #135

YouTube video by David Tizzard

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Really interesting post from Knox Peden on grief and loss, Spinoza, converting to Catholicism, and much more: thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue...

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The Lamp Magazine | The Asylum of Ignorance

On Spinoza and the Church.

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thank you so much! I really hope you like it, and I'm keen to know what you make of it in any case.

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Brief reminder of our editorial policy

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Dr Kathrine Cuccuru @aphilosopher.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

Good morning from the Tay still showing in the Green Gallery, at the University of Dundee Botanic Garden until Sunday 30 August 2026

Exhibition poster

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Photography by Dr Kathrine Cuccuru
a philosopher...
walks ..talks
…makes
Good Morning from the Tay
The Green Gallery
University of Dundee Botanic Garden, Riverside Drive, Dundee, DD2 1QH
15-30 August 2026
Gallery Open Daily* (*when invigilators available)
15 August, Opening Event with Philosophy Walks, 1-3pm 30 August, a philosopher...' Photography Workshop, 11am-12noon
All Gallery Visits & Events Free with Garden Entry (E5/E4.50 over 60s/Free for Carers, Under 16s, University of Dundee staff & students, students from other institutions, Friends of the Botanic Gardens) Limited edition prints & postcards available to purchase.
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Ben Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

3/3 I have a romantic soul, so I'm inclined to draw the following from the Short Treatise: Our joy & suffering is ever-present to God. Our world is equally present to God--every springtime, every sunrise, every star, every Galaxy is held & loved, since God loves Godself. Nothing is ever truly lost.

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Person Leaps into a Sparkling Cosmic Galaxy

ALT: Person Leaps into a Sparkling Cosmic Galaxy

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

axdouglas.substack.com/p/garys-fina...

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

That moment when an otherwise pleasant philosopher switches into critique mode, and the hunger for intellectual domination enters their eyes

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I feel like you've just reinvented peer review

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thanks! I'm more after amusement than agreement :)

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

At least early Spinoza, yes. Later Spinoza, I want to argue, thinks of the eternal part of ourselves as a big chaotic blob with no one distinct identity.

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Look, if there was anything interesting to say about AI, surely _somebody_ would have said it by now. At some point it comes time to call off the search.

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Dr Kathrine Cuccuru @aphilosopher.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

If you’ve been have trouble booking your place for ‘a philosopher…’ Photography Workshop, the unexpected glitch has been fixed, at tickts.co.uk/events/a-phi...

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Reposting, because I haven’t written anything new for a while: aeon.co/essays/how-t...

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I really enjoyed this interview with Joseph Folley, even though I made lots of mistakes! Luckily he's so sharp, he kept me on track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=chpS...

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Why We're Obsessed with Identity (and why we should stop) | Dr. Alexander Douglas

YouTube video by Unsolicited advice

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