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Richmond Cambell

George Munro professor of philosophy emeritus at Dalhousie University and coauthor of A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made Us Human (OUP, 2022).

 

George Munro professor of philosophy emeritus at Dalhousie University and coauthor of A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made Us Human (OUP, 2022).

 

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A new paradigm to understand pain
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Euthanasia isn't a slippery slope

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The mystery and origins of play
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Biology's Uncertainty Principle
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From Darwin to Derrida: evolution as interpretation
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Too much pleasure causes pain

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How science makes politics absurd
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Cracking the creation of life
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The ocean is the engine of the Earth
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The microorganism that shaped humanity
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We risk turning life into an illness
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The Brave New World of synthetic humans
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The post-antibiotic apocalypse is here
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The mystery of living things
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Suspended Ethics?
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Entering the Soul Niche
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A New Science of Life
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The Persecution of Heretics
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