How can we end the male domination of philosophy?
In 1863, John Stuart Mill wrote: "The entire history of social improvement has been a series of transitions, by which one custom or institution after another, from being a supposed primary necessity of social existence, has passed into the rank of a universally stigmatised injustice and tyranny. So it has been with the distinctions of slaves and freemen, nobles and serfs, patricians and plebeians;
Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? | Oliver Burkeman
One spring morning in Tucson, Arizona, in 1994, an unknown philosopher named David Chalmers got up to give a talk on consciousness, by which he meant the feeling of being inside your head, looking out – or, to use the kind of language that might give a neuroscientist an aneurysm, of having a soul. Though he didn’t realise it at the time, the young Australian academic was about to ignite a war betw
Hijra: India's third gender claims its place in law
With their glittering saris, bright makeup and a reputation for bawdy song and dance, hijras, India's transgender minority, are hard to miss. But this week, after years of discrimination, the community has finally been granted legal visibility. On Tuesday the supreme court of India ruled that transgender people would be recognised on official documents under a seperate "third gender" category. The
Why there's nothing racist about the 'racist chair'
The contemporary art world likes to think it has a common touch. While classical music is for the elite and the literary novel a minority taste, the art of today speaks the demotic and gets its message heard, from Jeff Koons to Grayson Perry, from Damien Hirst to Bjarne Melgaard. Bjarne who? I mean the Norwegian-born, New York-based artist who has just blundered, or been led by a blundering fan, i
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