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is Board of Governors Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law in New Jersey, US; visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Lincoln, UK; and honorary professor of philosophy at ...

is an associate director of the Yale-Hastings programme in ethics and health policy at Yale University and a research fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford.

is a lecturer in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. She researches in the areas of metametaphysics and the philosophy of logic, and has published her work in various philosophy ...

In 1979, a death-defying English handyman named Fred Dibnah (1938-2004) became something of a national folk hero after the BAFTA-winning documentary Fred Dibnah: Steeplejack first aired on the BBC.

Images of vast ‘canals’ rippling across the red planet inspired fears of alien ‘engineers’ and changed science forever ...