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Amna Whiston
Dr Amna Whiston is a moral philosopher and researcher with a specialist interest in Kant’s moral theory and the philosophy of the emotions. She currently teaches at Oxford University and is writing a book on the metaphysics of love.

Dr Amna Whiston is a moral philosopher and researcher with a specialist interest in Kant’s moral theory and the philosophy of the emotions. She currently teaches at Oxford University and is writing a book on the metaphysics of love.
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Nietzsche: your conscience is no saint

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Paul Bloom: The Pleasure of Suffering

Pandemic prediction from Lucretius

Mapping morality: Peter Singer vs his critics

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Schopenhauer and the insatiable will to live

How effective altruism lost the plot

Nietzsche and the perils of denying your self