George Berkeley is best known today as the eighteenth-century thinker who wrote “A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge”. Sean Sheehan He argued that material reality only exists as mental states in the mind. What we think of as reality – the stuff of the world, like […]
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Is unconscious bias, itself biased?
A doubled-edged sword? It is currently de rigeur to believe that people are largely driven by their unconscious, especially in their racist, gender and other beliefs that are not currently respectable. Nigel Pocock Yet this a two-edged sword, and one that could bounce back onto the person wielding […]
Laziness
My daughter has been working from home throughout the pandemic. While this has not adversely affected her productivity, she has noticed the slippage in work-life balance. Steve Latham There is now no distinction between work-space and overall life. While still doing a good job, she has therefore developed […]
Elections in Chile: from right to left?
The electoral environment in this Latin American country gains momentum ahead of the November presidential elections, while the right wing seems to have lost its strength. Rafael Calcines Armas The path begins to clear after the second round of elections for governors in 13 of the country’s 16 […]
The migrant caravan through Central America
The caravans of migrants from Central America are massive acts of resistance. Cinema becomes activism showing people on the journey, their own power as protagonists. The story of one woman and her children highlights poverty, an escape from domestic violence and anti-LGBTQ prejudice.