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philosophers

February 13, 2014

The New York Post Covers the Trial of Socrates

by Conor James McKeon
April 8, 2013

Dance Moves of the Philosophy Graduate Student

by Bijan Samareh
July 2, 2012

JPS: The Jean-Paul Sartre Navigation System

by Gabriella Cook and Jeremy Richards
June 29, 2011

A Teenage Philosopher Defends Missing Her Curfew

by Haley Joelle Ott
June 13, 2011

Deweyan-Pragmatist Playground Games and Rhymes

by Katelyn Sack
August 23, 2010

Great Thoughts in the History of Western Philosophy (On the Subject of Family Matters)

by Thomas Gallick
May 31, 2010

Friedrich Nietzsche, Chain-Restaurant Bartender

by Nick Kolakowski
May 19, 2010

Socrates and Glaucon on the Home Shopping Network

by Rafael Frumkin
May 3, 2010

Famous Philosophers and How They Were First Discovered

by Mike Sacks
January 15, 2010

Nietzsche’s Angel Food Cake

by Rebecca Coffey

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