#philosophyunleashed — Public Fediverse posts

Some thoughts about workplace abuse and exploitation in kids TV, professional wrestling, and for all of us under capitalism...

https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/182-much-too-quiet-on-set-stepping-on-eggshells-as-we-all-work-under-capitalism

#QuietOnSet #WWE #AEW #ProfessionalWrestling #Work #Capitalism #Exploitation #Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed

Some thoughts about workplace abuse and exploitation in kids TV, professional wrestling, and for all of us under capitalism...

https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/182-much-too-quiet-on-set-stepping-on-eggshells-as-we-all-work-under-capitalism

#QuietOnSet #WWE #AEW #ProfessionalWrestling #Work #Capitalism #Exploitation #Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed

Some thoughts about workplace abuse and exploitation in kids TV, professional wrestling, and for all of us under capitalism...

https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/182-much-too-quiet-on-set-stepping-on-eggshells-as-we-all-work-under-capitalism

#QuietOnSet #WWE #AEW #ProfessionalWrestling #Work #Capitalism #Exploitation #Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed

Some thoughts about workplace abuse and exploitation in kids TV, professional wrestling, and for all of us under capitalism...

https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/182-much-too-quiet-on-set-stepping-on-eggshells-as-we-all-work-under-capitalism

#QuietOnSet #WWE #AEW #ProfessionalWrestling #Work #Capitalism #Exploitation #Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed

England has a drinking problem. Could it be the cause of its political problems too? https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/177-reaching-rock-bottom-why-england-needs-to-sober-up

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Straightedge #drinking #alcohol #austerity #UK #politics

England has a drinking problem. Could it be the cause of its political problems too? https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/177-reaching-rock-bottom-why-england-needs-to-sober-up

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Straightedge #drinking #alcohol #austerity #UK #politics

England has a drinking problem. Could it be the cause of its political problems too? https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/177-reaching-rock-bottom-why-england-needs-to-sober-up

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Straightedge #drinking #alcohol #austerity #UK #politics

England has a drinking problem. Could it be the cause of its political problems too? https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/177-reaching-rock-bottom-why-england-needs-to-sober-up

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Straightedge #drinking #alcohol #austerity #UK #politics

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is about the need for us teachers to look in the mirror sometimes (often!) https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/168-its-not-just-the-kids-its-us-why-its-important-for-teachers-to-look-in-the-mirror #teachers #education #tech #schools #Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is about the need for us teachers to look in the mirror sometimes (often!) https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/168-its-not-just-the-kids-its-us-why-its-important-for-teachers-to-look-in-the-mirror #teachers #education #tech #schools #Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is about the need for us teachers to look in the mirror sometimes (often!) https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/168-its-not-just-the-kids-its-us-why-its-important-for-teachers-to-look-in-the-mirror #teachers #education #tech #schools #Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is about the need for us teachers to look in the mirror sometimes (often!) https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/168-its-not-just-the-kids-its-us-why-its-important-for-teachers-to-look-in-the-mirror #teachers #education #tech #schools #Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed

I got asked if I was serious about my opposition to police and prisons by an incredulous student last week while giving a talk and Q&A about anarchism. This week’s Philosophy Unleashed covers my response: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/165-justice-for-victims-why-i-wouldnt-want-my-killer-jailed #abolition #Philosophy #ethics #prisons #justice #anarchism #PhilosophyUnleashed

I got asked if I was serious about my opposition to police and prisons by an incredulous student last week while giving a talk and Q&A about anarchism. This week’s Philosophy Unleashed covers my response: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/165-justice-for-victims-why-i-wouldnt-want-my-killer-jailed #abolition #Philosophy #ethics #prisons #justice #anarchism #PhilosophyUnleashed

I got asked if I was serious about my opposition to police and prisons by an incredulous student last week while giving a talk and Q&A about anarchism. This week’s Philosophy Unleashed covers my response: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/165-justice-for-victims-why-i-wouldnt-want-my-killer-jailed #abolition #Philosophy #ethics #prisons #justice #anarchism #PhilosophyUnleashed

I got asked if I was serious about my opposition to police and prisons by an incredulous student last week while giving a talk and Q&A about anarchism. This week’s Philosophy Unleashed covers my response: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/165-justice-for-victims-why-i-wouldnt-want-my-killer-jailed #abolition #Philosophy #ethics #prisons #justice #anarchism #PhilosophyUnleashed

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is my lecture on Epistemic Inequality I gave to students last week: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/160-epistemic-inequality-why-should-we-care-about-inequalities-in-knowledge

#Philosophy #EpistemicInequality #Epistemology #AnarchistAtheistPunkRockTeacher #PhilosophyUnleashed

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is my lecture on Epistemic Inequality I gave to students last week: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/160-epistemic-inequality-why-should-we-care-about-inequalities-in-knowledge

#Philosophy #EpistemicInequality #Epistemology #AnarchistAtheistPunkRockTeacher #PhilosophyUnleashed

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is my lecture on Epistemic Inequality I gave to students last week: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/160-epistemic-inequality-why-should-we-care-about-inequalities-in-knowledge

#Philosophy #EpistemicInequality #Epistemology #AnarchistAtheistPunkRockTeacher #PhilosophyUnleashed

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is my lecture on Epistemic Inequality I gave to students last week: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/160-epistemic-inequality-why-should-we-care-about-inequalities-in-knowledge

#Philosophy #EpistemicInequality #Epistemology #AnarchistAtheistPunkRockTeacher #PhilosophyUnleashed

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers the decision of a London school to stop the “cultural misogyny” of calling teachers “sir” or “miss”…

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Gender #Teaching #HarrisWestminster #Schools #Sir #Miss #Identity #Work #Misogyny #Names

https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/157-i-wont-miss-sir-on-naming-our-teachersh

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers the decision of a London school to stop the “cultural misogyny” of calling teachers “sir” or “miss”…

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Gender #Teaching #HarrisWestminster #Schools #Sir #Miss #Identity #Work #Misogyny #Names

https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/157-i-wont-miss-sir-on-naming-our-teachersh

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers the decision of a London school to stop the “cultural misogyny” of calling teachers “sir” or “miss”…

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Gender #Teaching #HarrisWestminster #Schools #Sir #Miss #Identity #Work #Misogyny #Names

https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/157-i-wont-miss-sir-on-naming-our-teachersh

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers the decision of a London school to stop the “cultural misogyny” of calling teachers “sir” or “miss”…

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Gender #Teaching #HarrisWestminster #Schools #Sir #Miss #Identity #Work #Misogyny #Names

https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/157-i-wont-miss-sir-on-naming-our-teachersh

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers value and how it changes from person to person, place to place, and sometimes week to week: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/155-the-impermanence-of-value-fluctuating-perspectives-on-worth

#philosophy #value #impermanence #PhilosophyUnleashed #PhilosophyBlog #Blog

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers value and how it changes from person to person, place to place, and sometimes week to week: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/155-the-impermanence-of-value-fluctuating-perspectives-on-worth

#philosophy #value #impermanence #PhilosophyUnleashed #PhilosophyBlog #Blog

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers value and how it changes from person to person, place to place, and sometimes week to week: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/155-the-impermanence-of-value-fluctuating-perspectives-on-worth

#philosophy #value #impermanence #PhilosophyUnleashed #PhilosophyBlog #Blog

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers value and how it changes from person to person, place to place, and sometimes week to week: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/155-the-impermanence-of-value-fluctuating-perspectives-on-worth

#philosophy #value #impermanence #PhilosophyUnleashed #PhilosophyBlog #Blog

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed takes a look at disruption. Both the Public Order Act and erosion of the right to protest in England, and also leavers’ pranks at the end of the school year. Check it out here: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/154-disruption-its-importance-and-its-impotence

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #PublicOrderAct #Protest #Disruption #Pranks #Leavers #School #Policing #Dissent

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed takes a look at disruption. Both the Public Order Act and erosion of the right to protest in England, and also leavers’ pranks at the end of the school year. Check it out here: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/154-disruption-its-importance-and-its-impotence

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #PublicOrderAct #Protest #Disruption #Pranks #Leavers #School #Policing #Dissent

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed takes a look at disruption. Both the Public Order Act and erosion of the right to protest in England, and also leavers’ pranks at the end of the school year. Check it out here: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/154-disruption-its-importance-and-its-impotence

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #PublicOrderAct #Protest #Disruption #Pranks #Leavers #School #Policing #Dissent

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed takes a look at disruption. Both the Public Order Act and erosion of the right to protest in England, and also leavers’ pranks at the end of the school year. Check it out here: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/154-disruption-its-importance-and-its-impotence

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #PublicOrderAct #Protest #Disruption #Pranks #Leavers #School #Policing #Dissent

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers some of the philosophical questions arising from the coronation of a new king. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/153-philosophy-and-the-coronation-questions-raised-by-the-crowning-of-a-new-king

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Coronation #CharlesIII #KingCharles #Democracy #Monarchy #Protest #Religion #Pluralism #Politics #Blog #ALevelPhilosophy

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers some of the philosophical questions arising from the coronation of a new king. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/153-philosophy-and-the-coronation-questions-raised-by-the-crowning-of-a-new-king

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Coronation #CharlesIII #KingCharles #Democracy #Monarchy #Protest #Religion #Pluralism #Politics #Blog #ALevelPhilosophy

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers some of the philosophical questions arising from the coronation of a new king. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/153-philosophy-and-the-coronation-questions-raised-by-the-crowning-of-a-new-king

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Coronation #CharlesIII #KingCharles #Democracy #Monarchy #Protest #Religion #Pluralism #Politics #Blog #ALevelPhilosophy

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed considers some of the philosophical questions arising from the coronation of a new king. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/153-philosophy-and-the-coronation-questions-raised-by-the-crowning-of-a-new-king

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Coronation #CharlesIII #KingCharles #Democracy #Monarchy #Protest #Religion #Pluralism #Politics #Blog #ALevelPhilosophy

Back with a new Philosophy Unleashed after a long spring break: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/152-inspired-philosophy-where-do-ideas-come-from This week I’m looking at what inspiration is, and why it is. Check it out and enjoy!

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Inspiration #Improv #Writing #Deadlines #Florida #Perception #Teaching #School #ALevel #Exams

Back with a new Philosophy Unleashed after a long spring break: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/152-inspired-philosophy-where-do-ideas-come-from This week I’m looking at what inspiration is, and why it is. Check it out and enjoy!

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Inspiration #Improv #Writing #Deadlines #Florida #Perception #Teaching #School #ALevel #Exams

Back with a new Philosophy Unleashed after a long spring break: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/152-inspired-philosophy-where-do-ideas-come-from This week I’m looking at what inspiration is, and why it is. Check it out and enjoy!

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Inspiration #Improv #Writing #Deadlines #Florida #Perception #Teaching #School #ALevel #Exams

Back with a new Philosophy Unleashed after a long spring break: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/152-inspired-philosophy-where-do-ideas-come-from This week I’m looking at what inspiration is, and why it is. Check it out and enjoy!

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Inspiration #Improv #Writing #Deadlines #Florida #Perception #Teaching #School #ALevel #Exams

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed (the last before the Easter break) looks at the institutionally racist, misogynistic, and homophobic London Met police force and calls out their commissioner, Mark Rowley, for refusing to use the word “institutional”. It also looks at institutional prejudices baked into schools. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/151-institutionally-afraid-on-the-importance-of-acknowledging-institutional-prejudice

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #MarkRowley #InstitutionalRacism #InstitutionalPrejudice #Police #Schools #Education #Policing #LondonMet #Blog #Writing #Bias #StructuralRacism #SaraAhmed #LindaAlcoff #IanCushing #CaseyReport

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed (the last before the Easter break) looks at the institutionally racist, misogynistic, and homophobic London Met police force and calls out their commissioner, Mark Rowley, for refusing to use the word “institutional”. It also looks at institutional prejudices baked into schools. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/151-institutionally-afraid-on-the-importance-of-acknowledging-institutional-prejudice

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #MarkRowley #InstitutionalRacism #InstitutionalPrejudice #Police #Schools #Education #Policing #LondonMet #Blog #Writing #Bias #StructuralRacism #SaraAhmed #LindaAlcoff #IanCushing #CaseyReport

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed (the last before the Easter break) looks at the institutionally racist, misogynistic, and homophobic London Met police force and calls out their commissioner, Mark Rowley, for refusing to use the word “institutional”. It also looks at institutional prejudices baked into schools. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/151-institutionally-afraid-on-the-importance-of-acknowledging-institutional-prejudice

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #MarkRowley #InstitutionalRacism #InstitutionalPrejudice #Police #Schools #Education #Policing #LondonMet #Blog #Writing #Bias #StructuralRacism #SaraAhmed #LindaAlcoff #IanCushing #CaseyReport

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed (the last before the Easter break) looks at the institutionally racist, misogynistic, and homophobic London Met police force and calls out their commissioner, Mark Rowley, for refusing to use the word “institutional”. It also looks at institutional prejudices baked into schools. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/151-institutionally-afraid-on-the-importance-of-acknowledging-institutional-prejudice

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #MarkRowley #InstitutionalRacism #InstitutionalPrejudice #Police #Schools #Education #Policing #LondonMet #Blog #Writing #Bias #StructuralRacism #SaraAhmed #LindaAlcoff #IanCushing #CaseyReport

Today’s Philosophy Unleashed looks at the myth of impartiality: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/150-you-cant-be-neutral-on-a-moving-train-gary-lineker-and-the-myth-of-impartiality

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #impartiality #GaryLineker #SaraAhmed #HowardZinn

Today’s Philosophy Unleashed looks at the myth of impartiality: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/150-you-cant-be-neutral-on-a-moving-train-gary-lineker-and-the-myth-of-impartiality

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #impartiality #GaryLineker #SaraAhmed #HowardZinn

Today’s Philosophy Unleashed looks at the myth of impartiality: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/150-you-cant-be-neutral-on-a-moving-train-gary-lineker-and-the-myth-of-impartiality

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #impartiality #GaryLineker #SaraAhmed #HowardZinn

Today’s Philosophy Unleashed looks at the myth of impartiality: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/150-you-cant-be-neutral-on-a-moving-train-gary-lineker-and-the-myth-of-impartiality

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #impartiality #GaryLineker #SaraAhmed #HowardZinn

My boiler broke last week - will I ever be able to trust it, or the company who failed to properly service it and left us stranded without heat for three days, again? This week’s Philosophy Unleashed looks at trust, induction, Hume, Descartes, prisons, and boilers… https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/149-the-limbo-of-trust-hume-descartes-induction-trust-and-a-broken-boiler

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Boiler #Trust #Hume #Descartes #Writing #Induction

My boiler broke last week - will I ever be able to trust it, or the company who failed to properly service it and left us stranded without heat for three days, again? This week’s Philosophy Unleashed looks at trust, induction, Hume, Descartes, prisons, and boilers… https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/149-the-limbo-of-trust-hume-descartes-induction-trust-and-a-broken-boiler

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Boiler #Trust #Hume #Descartes #Writing #Induction

My boiler broke last week - will I ever be able to trust it, or the company who failed to properly service it and left us stranded without heat for three days, again? This week’s Philosophy Unleashed looks at trust, induction, Hume, Descartes, prisons, and boilers… https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/149-the-limbo-of-trust-hume-descartes-induction-trust-and-a-broken-boiler

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Boiler #Trust #Hume #Descartes #Writing #Induction

My boiler broke last week - will I ever be able to trust it, or the company who failed to properly service it and left us stranded without heat for three days, again? This week’s Philosophy Unleashed looks at trust, induction, Hume, Descartes, prisons, and boilers… https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/149-the-limbo-of-trust-hume-descartes-induction-trust-and-a-broken-boiler

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #Boiler #Trust #Hume #Descartes #Writing #Induction

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is asking whether World Book Day is celebrating reading, or merely fetishising the object of the book: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/148-thinking-about-world-book-day-how-reading-is-more-than-the-the-fetishisation-of-books

#philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #WorldBookDay #reading #books #OfMiceAndMen #TheNickelBoys #aesthetics #design #value #meaning

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is asking whether World Book Day is celebrating reading, or merely fetishising the object of the book: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/148-thinking-about-world-book-day-how-reading-is-more-than-the-the-fetishisation-of-books

#philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #WorldBookDay #reading #books #OfMiceAndMen #TheNickelBoys #aesthetics #design #value #meaning

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is asking whether World Book Day is celebrating reading, or merely fetishising the object of the book: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/148-thinking-about-world-book-day-how-reading-is-more-than-the-the-fetishisation-of-books

#philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #WorldBookDay #reading #books #OfMiceAndMen #TheNickelBoys #aesthetics #design #value #meaning

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed is asking whether World Book Day is celebrating reading, or merely fetishising the object of the book: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/148-thinking-about-world-book-day-how-reading-is-more-than-the-the-fetishisation-of-books

#philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #WorldBookDay #reading #books #OfMiceAndMen #TheNickelBoys #aesthetics #design #value #meaning

I unexpectedly wrote something defending changing the words of Roald Dahl for this week’s Philosophy Unleashed. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/147-not-all-gobstoppers-are-everlasting-why-im-ok-with-changing-the-words-of-roald-dahl

I’ve always been anti-change and anti-censorship as a first instinct, but the more I thought about commercial writing the more I started to question the commitment to the idea of “Dahl’s” words…

#RoaldDahl #philosophy #writing #language #PhilosophyUnleashed

I unexpectedly wrote something defending changing the words of Roald Dahl for this week’s Philosophy Unleashed. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/147-not-all-gobstoppers-are-everlasting-why-im-ok-with-changing-the-words-of-roald-dahl

I’ve always been anti-change and anti-censorship as a first instinct, but the more I thought about commercial writing the more I started to question the commitment to the idea of “Dahl’s” words…

#RoaldDahl #philosophy #writing #language #PhilosophyUnleashed

I unexpectedly wrote something defending changing the words of Roald Dahl for this week’s Philosophy Unleashed. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/147-not-all-gobstoppers-are-everlasting-why-im-ok-with-changing-the-words-of-roald-dahl

I’ve always been anti-change and anti-censorship as a first instinct, but the more I thought about commercial writing the more I started to question the commitment to the idea of “Dahl’s” words…

#RoaldDahl #philosophy #writing #language #PhilosophyUnleashed

I unexpectedly wrote something defending changing the words of Roald Dahl for this week’s Philosophy Unleashed. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/147-not-all-gobstoppers-are-everlasting-why-im-ok-with-changing-the-words-of-roald-dahl

I’ve always been anti-change and anti-censorship as a first instinct, but the more I thought about commercial writing the more I started to question the commitment to the idea of “Dahl’s” words…

#RoaldDahl #philosophy #writing #language #PhilosophyUnleashed