Philosophy
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UC Santa Cruz’s ‘Festival of Monsters’ blends scholarship and scares this October
The Festival of Monsters returns to Santa Cruz in October. It’s a celebration of horror and theory hosted by UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Monster Studies. This season also marks the arrival on campus of two new philosophy professors in the Humanities Division, Sara Bernstein and Daniel Nolan, whose collaborated on a project about what…
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Socrates would be pleased: With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation
A host of philosophy-themed prison education programs have cropped up in recent years, many of them in the context of higher education.