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Thursday, December 24, 2015

"Genetic editing and the tyranny of opinion" published at Policy Forum

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This op-ed piece on the controversy over human genetic editing and CRISPR-Cas9 has gone live today at Policy Forum (a site associated with ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

"Why I still support Charlie Hebdo" to be anthologised from Melbourne University Press

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My Cogito article "Why I still support Charlie Hebdo" has been picked up for republication in Politics, Policy & the Chance...
Saturday, November 07, 2015

Clive James on blog-trolls

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I do love this coinage by Clive James: blog-trolls . Of course, no one wants to admit to being one of those . We're just adorable and fe...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

The Left's Defection from Progress

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Note: This is a slightly abridged (but otherwise largely warts and all) version of an article that I had published in Quadrant magazine in ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Richard Garner's back-cover endorsement of The Mystery of Moral Authority

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“The mystery of moral authority is that we persist in attributing objective and inescapable authority to moral judgments even though the...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

The Mystery of Moral Authority on Palgrave Macmillan's site

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Here! More news to come over the next couple of months as the release date rolls around.

Freedom For the Speech We Oppose

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I have a new article at TPM Online: "Freedom for The Speech We Oppose". Check it out!
Friday, October 09, 2015

The Mystery of Moral Authority now available for pre-order

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My new book, The Mystery of Moral Authority , is scheduled to appear from Palgrave Pivot toward the end of 2015. It's already  availabl...
Thursday, October 08, 2015

Should there be a Nobel Prize for Philosophy?

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I've written an op-ed on this for The Drum. Check it out! (The answer is not as simple as you might think - and I had to cover a lot of...
Saturday, October 03, 2015

A postscript on Troy Newman and the freedom to express extreme ideas

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This is cross-posted on the Talking Philosophy site. I have a post over at Cogito about the debacle with extreme anti-abortion campaigne...
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Russell Blackford
Australian philosopher, literary critic, legal scholar, and professional writer. Based in Newcastle, NSW. My latest books are THE TYRANNY OF OPINION: CONFORMITY AND THE FUTURE OF LIBERALISM (2019); AT THE DAWN OF A GREAT TRANSITION: THE QUESTION OF RADICAL ENHANCEMENT (2021); and HOW WE BECAME POST-LIBERAL: THE RISE AND FALL OF TOLERATION (2024).
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