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Jan H. Wasserziehr

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Jan H. Wasserziehr is a PhD candidate in political theory at the LSE. He’s interested in the relationship between technical progress and human subjectivity.

Jan H. Wasserziehr is a PhD candidate in political theory at the LSE. He’s interested in the relationship between technical progress and human subjectivity.

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Conquer Your Love!

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Brooke Magnanti

Legislating Love

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Christopher Hamilton

Divorce is the New Death

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Anders Sandberg

Manufacturing Love

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Catherine Hakim

Love Incorporated

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Christopher Hamilton, David Maclean

Christopher Hamilton On Kierkegaard and Tinder

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Fine-tuning Passion: When is love not an emotion?

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Massimo Pigliucci

Infidelity: a Stoic's perspective

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The Good Life in the 21st Century: Living Single

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What Are Love and Sex? Eight Answers from Philosophy

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Looks are not superficial

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The love lives of philosophers changed how we think

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Anders Sandberg, Alexis Papazoglou

Hacking Love Isn’t Cheating

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The changing face of love

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The case for abolishing the family

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Rewriting romance

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Dating Nietzsche: Love vs Power

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Philosophy is an erotic endeavor

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Andrés Abeliuk

What dating apps get wrong about your love life

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Love is not a virtue

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AI, intimacy, and the end of love

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Of Wonder and Terror

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An (Extra)Ordinary Life

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On Heresy

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In Defence of Gossip

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Editorial: A Heretics' Feast

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What Killed the Space Race?

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The Factory of Virtual Fantasies

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Woodrow Hartzog

Privacy and the Dark Side of Control

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Skye C. Cleary, John Kaag

To gift or not to gift? A philosopher's dilemma