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Of interest elsewhere…

1. A lot of major Western philosophers were childless — Doug Muir asks why
2. Had Jews “rejected the canard that anti-Zionism is anti-semitism then this process would not have reached the point at which Trump can hold Columbia University ransom under the pretext that he is protecting Jews” — “We are complicit,” argues Matthew Noah Smith
3. Edvard Munch’s portrait of Nietzsche — it’s included in a newly opened exhibition of the artist’s work at the National Portrait Gallery in London
4. “Beware of glib statements to the effect that, because addiction is a disease, feelings of shame should have no place in how an addict or anyone else conceives the addict’s plight or way to recovery” — Owen Flanagan on the therapeutic value of shame
5. “Language is part of constructing the world as we experience it… Lose the speaker, lose the language. Lose the language, lose the world” — the singular voice of Amy Olberding on “the words that death steals along with our dead”
6. What do bioethicists believe? — results of a survey conducted last spring (via MR)
7. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is looking to have several new entries written — you can check out their most-wanted list here

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