Philosophy

The Scandal of Simone de Beauvoir (Pt 3)

How Beauvoir had sex with her students and lied about it afterwards

Dec 17 •

Jeremy Stangroom

The Scandal of Simone de Beauvoir (Pt 2)

How Simone de Beauvoir had sex with her students and lied about it afterwards

Dec 16 •

Jeremy Stangroom

The Scandal of Simone de Beauvoir (Pt 1)

How Beauvoir had sex with her students and lied about it afterwards

Dec 15 •

Jeremy Stangroom

A. J. Ayer vs. Mike Tyson

On the genesis of a story.

Dec 2 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Love Letters and a Sleazy Seduction

How to woo like a philosopher

Nov 29 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Thomas Aquinas and His Girdle

How Aquinas fended off a seductress with a hot poker

Nov 27 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Why Bryan Magee's Memoir Was Pulped

The Curious Tale of a Libel Action

Nov 23 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Naked Photos Dilemma

On another tricky issue of consent

Nov 19 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Bertrand Russell and the Missile Crisis

How Bertrand Russell foretold the end of the world

Nov 16 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Sex While Drunk

On a tricky issue of consent

Nov 14 •

Jeremy Stangroom

I'm a Lord, and Don't You Forget It!

On Bertrand Russell's title

Nov 12 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Heraclitus and Bullshit (Literally)

On an implausibly malodorous death

Nov 9 •

Jeremy Stangroom

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