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Women making a fuss
9/28/11

What a lot of fuss, some will snigger. Maybe.  But isn’t ‘making a fuss’ precisely the manner in which women have chosen to situate themselves in relation to modes of thought and the university? Vinciane Despret and Isabelle Stengers have set themselves the question.

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An archaeology of courage and its current forms
5/27/10

A deserted subject on the philosophical field for a good age now, ‘courage’ has once again become an object of study in a collective work with a particularly widespread content and a welcome pedagogical slant

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Is Cartesian dualism dead?
6/12/09

Over the past thirty years, consciousness has slipped out of the shadows where scientific research had left it to slumber. Data from functional cerebral imaging have marked out a way where the mind and the brain seem to intertwine and march in time with each other. However, for a significant proportion of the general public and even neuroscientists, Cartesian dualism remains alive and well.

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Eating the Avant-garde: Tasting is Believing
2/16/09

Western art and philosophy have long neglected and distrusted the sense of taste and food as incapable of producing meaning. Michel Delville argues that the avant-garde has redressed this imbalance.

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Animals and humans
2/26/08

What are the relationships that humans have with animals really like? A fundamental social question to which Vinciane Despret responds in two books.

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