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• Zhuangzi, The Zhuangzi
  The Zhuangzi (also sometimes written Chuang-tzu) is an eponymous book attributed to a Daoist philosophy of the 4th century… Read more: Zhuangzi, <i>The Zhuangzi</i>
• Annie Ernaux in the Rouen Library
  The 2022 Nobel laureate for literature, Annie Ernaux, first entered the Rouen Municipal Library as shy,… Read more: Annie Ernaux in the Rouen Library
• Photographing Philosophers
  A.J. Ayer suggested to Steven Pyke during a photoshoot that other notable philosophers ought to be… Read more: Photographing Philosophers
• The Value of Solitude
  “The greatest thing in the world,” Montaigne writes, “is to know how to belong to oneself.” … Read more: The Value of Solitude
• Student Essays and Chat GTP
  The advent of Chat GTP creates new problems in the classroom. What will educators to about… Read more: Student Essays and Chat GTP
• PI Day!
  Now that all the celebrations are over and we’ve cleaned up after the party, everyone at… Read more: PI Day!
• Argument and Civility
  Catherine Hundleby, a friend of firstphilosophy.ca and one of our earliest contributors, has died. Catherine was… Read more: Argument and Civility
• Philosophy on Television: The Good Place
  Six unlikely friends, romance, snappy, funny dialogue, and… loads of philosophy. The Good Place has an… Read more: Philosophy on Television: The Good Place
• Mediaeval and Modern Roots of Computers
  Long before the advent of modern computers, even before electricity was harnessed to power the kind… Read more: Mediaeval and Modern Roots of Computers
• Gabrielle Suchon, Seventeenth Century Feminist
  The range of respectable lives for Seventeenth Century women in Europe was sharply restricted. As a… Read more: Gabrielle Suchon, Seventeenth Century Feminist
• Permanent Crisis
  Reitter, Paul & Chad Wellmon, Permanent Crisis: This work argues that the narrative that the humanities… Read more: Permanent Crisis
• Laughing Matters: But how?
  What provokes us to laugh? Aristotle dropped some hints about laughter and comedy in what remains… Read more: Laughing Matters: But how?

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