The bubonic plague’s origins were in the Tien Shan mountains in modern Kyrgyzstan. It spread not by rats and ships, but by gerbils
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This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
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Below is the audio recording of Alison Jaggar’s John Dewey Lecture, “Academic Philosophy: What Is It? What Do We Want...
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