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Steven Luper
Professor of philosophy, Trinity University and author of The Philosophy of Death (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Professor of philosophy, Trinity University and author of The Philosophy of Death (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
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The morality of animals

The two ideas that divide us

Nature loves a hypocrite

Who is to blame for migrant deaths?

In defence of pessimism

Christmas traditions don't need religion

The Epicurean's guide to Christmas

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Are mandatory vaccines justified?

Groundhog Day vs Nietzsche: Reliving Your Life

The Return of Meaning

The power of anxiety

Humour is no joke

Change Thyself: your personality is a moral issue

The rules of war are absurd, but necesssary

What Hobbes really thought about war

Why getting what you want won't make you happy

Moderating Twitter's Moderators

Truth is questionable, and so is honesty

Nietzsche: your conscience is no saint

Happiness as an act of resistance

The present is all there is to happiness

Paul Bloom: The Pleasure of Suffering

Pandemic prediction from Lucretius

Mapping morality: Peter Singer vs his critics

The danger of ethics without empathy

Schopenhauer and the insatiable will to live

How effective altruism lost the plot

Pursuing happiness is a mistake

Nietzsche and the perils of denying your self