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‘How does it smell?’
FromThe TLS Podcast
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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
May 13, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The TLS’s philosophy editor Tim Crane guides us through a selection of reviews and essays from this week’s issue, including on the future of AI and what Thomas Hobbes, Susan Sontag, Montaigne and the trolley problem can tell us about our present predicament; the novelist Will Eaves re-reads Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, “a caravan of episodes, made up of people going through the same horror in different ways”, and ponders a big-screen adaptation…
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Released:
May 13, 2020
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Podcast episode
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Robert Herrick and John Evelyn: Michael Caines reads a selection of verses by the seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick, as well as a remarkable and little-known elegy by the diarist John Evelyn. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and... by The TLS Podcast