Tag: coffee shop

• Who’s afraid of the Deodand?

  Sometimes Philosophy hides in plain sight; interesting questions emerge, unbidden, when you least expect them. A few months ago I was waiting in a line to order a coffee in a poorly-lit shop, when the woman behind bumped into me as she struggled to read the menu posted on the wall over the counter. “They […]

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  June 10, 2020

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  Adam Smith, Aeon.co, coffee shop, deodand, English Common Law, humour, King’s College London, Paul Sagar, philosophy, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Woody Allen

• Acknowledging the Mind’s Eye

  Sometimes, in the midst of a problem –in the midst of an era- the resolution derives not so much from the answer as from the acknowledgement that there is an issue to begin with. I find it interesting that Nature has given us an ability to adapt more efficiently -to ignore, I suppose- that which […]

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  February 8, 2017

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  acceptance, BBC news, coffee shop, conversation, culture, difference, Gender, Janus, Societal norms, society, Theory of Mind