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The Scandal of Simone de Beauvoir (Pt 3)
How Beauvoir had sex with her students and lied about it afterwards
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Jeremy Stangroom
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The Scandal of Simone de Beauvoir (Pt 2)
How Simone de Beauvoir had sex with her students and lied about it afterwards
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Jeremy Stangroom
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The Scandal of Simone de Beauvoir (Pt 1)
How Beauvoir had sex with her students and lied about it afterwards
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Jeremy Stangroom
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The Sorrows of Young Goethe
On the pain of unrequited love
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Thomas Aquinas and His Girdle
How Aquinas fended off a seductress with a hot poker
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Why Bryan Magee's Memoir Was Pulped
The Curious Tale of a Libel Action
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Russell vs. Ryle
A philosophical spat, played out in the letters pages of The Times newspaper
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Jeremy Stangroom
On the Trolley Problem
You've seen the memes, but what's it all about?
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Jeremy Stangroom
On Sociobiology, Edward O. Wilson, and a Pitcher of Water
A blast from a science war of the past.
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Jeremy Stangroom
Misunderstanding Richard Dawkins
How fears about social Darwinism and related ideas lead Dawkins's critics astray.
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Jeremy Stangroom
Schopenhauer vs. Russell: On Love and Attraction
What is the secret to sexual allure?
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Jeremy Stangroom
Schopenhauer and the Opera Glasses
The great philosopher comes to the aid of the Austrian army.
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