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Lewis R. Gordon

Lewis Ricardo Gordon is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy,… more

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#CriticalThinking. Although ignoring the 2000 years of critical thinking in Africa (e.g., in Kemet--see, e.g., the Sekhti-nefer-medu ["The Eloquent Peasant"] ) that preceded the Greeks , the basic insight of this PhiloNautica post is on point.

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How We Ended Up Raising the Stupidest Generation
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Sri Aurobindo, among other philosophers, argued this more than a century ago, Still, it's great to see the science coming to this realization. #HumanEvolutionaryTransition
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Humans Are In The Middle Of "A Great Evolutionary Transition", New Paper Claims
From above, we all look like ants.
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Worth listening. Addresses the cognitive and affective dangers--from delusional folly to tragedy from its sycophantry--of #ChatGPT and some of the legal implications unfolding.
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Trapped in a ChatGPT Spiral
YouTube video by New York Times Podcasts
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Recent issue of JOURNAL OF WORLD PHILOSOPHIES features articles on African phenomenologies of existence and crises
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Journal of World Philosophies
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Frantz Maguerite Victor #Fanon was born on 20 July 2025. Today is the 100th anniversary of his birth. His aliases included IIbrahim (father of many or a nation) and Omar (flourishing or long-life). He died at age 36. His ideas live on.
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Fanon's chosen names were Ibrahim (father of many or a nation) and Omar (flourishing or long-life). He confessed to his brother Joby that he would die young. He died at age 36.

His legacy (many) and thought (brilliant) continue to flourish.
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Frantz Marguerite Victor Fanon (his full name) amounts to "freedom pearl victory fair/just" or "a victorious pearl of freedom and justice"
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Frantz Marguerite Victor Fanon was born on the 25th of July 1925. "Frantz" means freedom; "Marguerite" means pearl; "victor" speaks for itself; and "Fanon" in Gaelic means "fair," and in Latin is "cloth" worn by the Pope.
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The Caribbean Philosophical Association's annual international conference will take place next week (July 15 - 20) in Martinique, the country of Frantz Fanon's birth.
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Fanon at One Hundred — The Caribbean Philosophical Association
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#UConnPhilosophy in the News: Mary Gregg (UConn PhD in Philosophy, 2022) is one of this year’s winners of the American Society for Aesthetics’ H. Chayes New Voices Award for her paper “Readings as Redemptive: The Use of Drag Readings to Combat Oppressive De-contextualization.” Brava, Mary!

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