Corporate and political actors know more about how our minds work than we do. The right to free thought can no longer be our ‘forgotten freedom’
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As Solzhenitsyn saw it, simple truths are always a threat to totalitarianism.
True democracy is actually a radical idea.
From losing inhibitions and anger to schizophrenia and dementia – science is uncovering the role small critters play in a range of illnesses and behaviours.
You may not be free but buying lots of stuff can create the illusion that you are.
Self-determination, freedom of thought, choice of risk arguably have freed society, but then there’s inequality, ill-health and narcissism.
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton
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Co-director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, University of Brighton
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Lancashire
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Co-Deputy Director, Human Rights Centre and Co-Director of Postgraduate Studies, School of Law, University of Essex
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Emeritus Reader in History, University of Kent
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Reader in Ecological Genetics, Liverpool John Moores University
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin