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Items of interest elsewhere… “Du Bois is read as the Black Hegel, and Fanon as a Black Sartre… [but] turning non-Western thinkers into tame versions of ourselves is a kind of intellectual colonialism that we need to get beyond” — Takeshi Morisato on the risks of comparative philosophy “The very same bits of nature can lead to the best life and its greatest corruption” — Eric Schliesser discusses Socrates, Smith, inquiry, and equality in one of a series of posts about Agnes Callard’s “Open Socrates” “When there was some… topic that seemed intriguing, it was dismissed with condescending authority by the question, ‘Yes, but is it philosophy?’ It took me years to see the bullying in such questions” — Eleonore Stump’s 2023 Dewey Lecture Recent work in the epistemology of inquiry — a useful survey by Pablo Hubacher Haerle “The goal would be to make available, to students of all ages everywhere, a truly comprehensive record of documented human civilizations and ideas in all their variety” —…