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Nigel Warburton is a British philosopher. He is best known as a populariser of philosophy, having written a number of… more

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Interesting! Do you know about Michael Baxandall’s discussion of blue pigment in 15th C Renaissance paintings? Patrons specified amount to be used partly because it was a proxy symbol for wealth because made from rare lapis lazuli and viewers would know that…
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Because there's so much awful stuff to write about, I decided to write my latest column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social about something interesting and removed from all that: the discovery of a blue pigment in a Neolithic artefact.
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How did cave artists get a brand new pigment?
The discovery of traces of a blue pigment on a stone shaped into a shallow dish at a Palaeolithic site in Germany is quite a find
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Philosophers can’t tell you how to live @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/nigel-warbur...
Everyday philosophy: Philosophers can't tell you how to live
There is, so far, no philosophical consensus about how we should go about our lives. We have to keep thinking for ourselves
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The Philosophy Bites podcast started in 2007 (and is fast approaching 50 million unique episode downloads). Which philosophy podcasts were around before us? www.philosophybites.com
Philosophy Bites Podcast
Top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics
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Latest Philosophy Bites with @nigelwarburton.bsky.social philosophybites.com On a topic I know a little about @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics
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Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵
Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting
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Everyday philosophy: Dr Bot will see you now
Don't let Donald Trump’s med bed fiasco distract you from how AI is actually transforming medical care and the ethical issues it raises
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How long before Russia cuts internet cables to the UK? Don’t say I didn’t warn you….
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Signed copies of A Little History of Philosophy now available in @blackwelloxford.bsky.social Broad Street store (on the ground floor in the section that used to be music but now sells gifts)
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I’m suggesting it would be a shame if the whole country got held to ransom, particularly if this is just some kind of political gesture playing to anti immigrant voters but putting everyone at risk…We have a history of Government digital data breaches
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We’re hearing about a cyber hack of a nursery chain and we’re being told all of us need a digital identity card with all our personal details centrally recorded… Hmmmmmmmm
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