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Santiago Zabala

Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His most recent book is Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).

Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His most recent book is Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).

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