Year: 2021
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Greta and the Creal
A prescient excerpt from an article by Guy Burneko in the journal World Futures (2005). “Whether in the terms of the ecology of natural systems or those of the ecology of mind and nature, be it in the cosmological mathematics of wholeness and mutual implication or the mythopoeic tropes of an undivided cosmos coming to…
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Podcast – The Philosophical Therapist with Dr Luis de Miranda
Thoughts: Philosophy Untangled Has Philosophy ever actually helped anyone? Yes, yes it has. This week our hosts, Arianna Clark and Alex Constantinou, talk to philosopher, novelist and therapist Dr Luis de Miranda – where he explains just how philosophy can help us, and how it helped him. From dissecting reality to RuPaul’s Drag Race, we…
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Cognidiversity, a Kaleidoscope of Ways of Doing and thinking
Babies come into the world through a tube which at its origin is a kaleidoscope of infinite possibility, but which ends at its social end in this reductive and limited image called reality. This would be enough to cry for a long time, perhaps even to remain more or less inconsolable. Crealectic souls, however, try…
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The Need to Mitigate Climate Change Can Be A Legally Protected Philosophical Belief
The UK Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that an employee’s asserted belief that mankind is heading towards catastrophic climate change and we are under a moral duty to act to mitigate or avoid this is capable of being a philosophical belief for the purposes of the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 (SI…
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Cognidiversity and Creativity
The French mathematician Jean-Pierre Aubin writes: “Developing a discipline is not enough […]: what is also—and especially—needed is to seek within disciplines the motivations to forge new ways of understanding in each one. Because ultimately, understanding means the “validation of metaphors” linking knowledge already acquired with new perceptions of the world. To achieve this, we…
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Woman’s transgender views a “philosophical belief”, EAT rules
June 2021: “A woman who had her contract terminated because of tweets expressing her views on gender was entitled to express those views as they constituted a philosophical belief under the Equality Act, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled.“ Please note I am posting this information neutrally and for the sake of research, because I…
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