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1. The right to a human decision — Yuval Shany (Hebrew University) on what this right entails and its status in human rights law

2. “It is very exciting and very interesting, and very hard to say ‘no’ to” — philosopher Åsa Wikforss (Stockholm) shares some brief thoughts on being on the Nobel Prize Committee for Literature

3. What is “what is it like” like in other languages? — a question from Keith Frankish (Sheffield)

4. If money expired after a while, what problems would that solve? What problems would it create? — the case for, and interesting history of, expiring money

5. Philosophy gift guides by area of specialization — from the University of Notre Dame Department of Philosophy

6. “There is no greater way we can fail our students than to tell them that their moral questions have no place on our campuses” — Sukaina Hirji (Penn) and Serene J. Khader (Brooklyn/CUNY) on why we ought not condemn student protests

7. A simple-sounding problem involves numbers so large it has mathematicians lamenting, “the universe is so small” — it concerns getting from one state of affairs to another, and its difficulty reminds us how uncertain our accounting of our uncertainty is

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