Författare: Jesper Ahlin Marceta

In her book book Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World’s Strangest Brains, science journalist Helen Thomson writes about a group of remarkable people. The reader meets Sharon, who is always lost, Matar, who thinks that he is a tiger, and Joel, who feels other people’s pain, among others. Odd people with odd brains. In the opening chapter, Thomson refers to neurologist Oliver Sacks and his 1985 classic The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat. Thomson revisits Sacks’s idea to write about people with rare neurological conditions, “to see what a thirty-year neurological revolution had revealed” (p. 14).…

Feminism – en antologi (Isobel Hadley-Kamptz, red.)

The Journal of Value Inquiry 54(1), 151–153

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Liberaler kämpade för gemenskap och moral i mer än ett århundrade, innan ideologin tömdes på innehåll.

Under en period i min barndom var jag mobbad. Nej, det här är inte ett inlägg om mina erfarenheter eller om mobbning som sådant. Inlägget handlar om någonting som mobbningen har lärt mig om politik: det handlar om makt. När mobbarna har momentum är de nästan helt oövervinnerliga. Samma sak gäller också i politiken. Jag är 10-11 år gammal. Det är rast i skolan och jag har på mig min nya jacka som alla i hockeylaget har köpt. Jackan är blå, röd och gul och det står Mariestad BoIS Hockey på bröstet. Jag gillar den. Plötsligt sluter sig några killar…

Many people probably associate nationalism with aggressive and reactionary xenophobia. This is not what nationalism needs to be. In her book Why Nationalism, Yael Tamir offers an analysis of the rise of our contemporary populist nationalism and argues that liberals “must learn to harness nationalism to their cause” (p. 182). In Tamir’s analysis, the “hyperglobalism” of the last decades has benefited a well-educated urban elite, leaving the rest of the Western world’s population vulnerable to social and economic forces that are beyond their control. This has caused the vulnerable to reevaluate their risks and opportunities and led them to assume…

This is an excerpt from a manuscript on moral individualism. Charles Taylor develops his theory of authenticity in light of individualism as a “source of worry” (Taylor 1991, p. 2). The rise of individualism has given people a right to “choose for themselves their own pattern of life, to decide in conscience what convictions to espouse, to determine the shape of their lives in a whole host of ways that their ancestors couldn’t control” (ibid). Before individualism, people “were often locked into a given place, a role and station that was properly theirs and from which it was almost unthinkable…

Obdurodon tharalkooschild, an extinct species of platypus, was twice as big as its modern relatives. It lived in fresh waters where it preyed on turtle, frog, and fish. Everything we know about O. tharalkooschild is from a tooth found by paleontologists in 2012. One. Single. Tooth. Given such lack of evidence, how can we claim to know anything about its size, habits, and diet? Is knowledge even possible? Some philosophers of science are pessimists about our prospects to learn about the deep past, of which evidence is scarce. Adrian Currie is not. In his book Rock, Bone, and Ruin, Currie…