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Author: Naomi Farmer

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Law

Buying Your Self on the Internet

posted by Naomi Farmer September 19, 20196 min read767 Views

Don’t forget to read the fine print: Andelka M. Phillips looks at what you might be signing away when you order that online DNA test.

Detail 'Rechnender Greis' painting by Paul Klee, showing a man's face.
Philosophy

A History of Distributed Cognition

posted by Naomi Farmer June 13, 20197 min read920 Views

Distributed cognition – the idea that cognition or the mind extends across brain, body and world – is not a…

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International Relations

The continuing importance of Chile’s Cold War history

posted by Naomi Farmer June 4, 20196 min read1116 Views

Earlier this year, the United States government declassified more than 40,000 documents showing the American intelligence community’s reporting on the…

Photograph of President Johnson at an NSC meeting in 1966. He sits in the middle with two men either side. He looks bored.
History

The Past as Prologue on Presidential Privilege

posted by Naomi Farmer May 13, 20199 min read978 Views

As the Mueller investigation comes to a close, Kevin M. Baron looks to the history of the Freedom of Information Act and finds that the battle between Congress and the White House is nothing new.

International Relations

Clausewitz and Civil–Military Relations

posted by Naomi Farmer March 27, 20196 min read991 Views

Many readers of On War have taken Clausewitz’s discussion of the ‘logic’ of war tending to ‘extremes’ and concluded that…

Philosophy

Gilles Deleuze versus Process Philosophy

posted by Naomi Farmer February 12, 20198 min read3708 Views

Arjen Kleinherenbrink argues that Deleuzian metaphysics is actually two, very separate, metaphysics.

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British History

Does the British government learn from the history of military interventions?

posted by Naomi Farmer January 9, 20197 min read1259 Views

From Iraq to Libya, Louise Kettles asks whether the UK has learned to learn from its past mistakes in Middle-Eastern military interventions.

5 Things You Never Knew About Spinoza
Philosophy

5 Things You Never Knew About Spinoza

posted by Naomi Farmer November 11, 20186 min read2001 Views

Spinoza: a renegade thinker whose life was far from boring. From stab wounds to spiders, how many of these strange facts did you know about Spinoza?

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Philosophy

Primary and Secondary Qualities: More Trouble than You’d Think!

posted by Naomi Farmer November 6, 20186 min read1242 Views

Size and shape versus sound and colour: discover how primary and secondary qualities have perplexed philosophers for thousands of years, and how Thomas Reid offers us a way forward.

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Philosophy

What Electricity Has Done to Thought: an excerpt from The Life Intense by Tristan Garcia

posted by Naomi Farmer October 23, 201810 min read1992 Views

What Electricity Has Done to Thought: an excerpt from The Life Intense by Tristan Garcia.

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