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Cecily Whiteley

3 years

Have you ever been depressed (or know someone who is) and wondered, what the hell just happened? The bad news is that scientists don’t really know yet. The better news is that I have a new idea which could help. My new paper accepted @ BJPS 🥳.

Cecily Whiteley, Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness - PhilPapers

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4 years

Your girl just got her first publication acceptance in Phil Studies! So thrilled. 🎉

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1 year

Some life news: Cecily moves to Scotland! Excited, now that its official, to say I’ll be taking up a permanent Lectureship in St Andrews this September. I’m still can’t believe how lucky I am to be joining such an amazing department to continue my research on depression.

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3 years

Descartes is every undergraduate writing their first philosophy essay. #meditations

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2 years

Portrait of a long-suffering partner of a professional philosopher on the edge.

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5 years

I gave a talk yesterday. A visiting student in my department - who continued to interrupt and mansplain to me about the topic I have spent all summer researching - just sent me this helpful advice. And to think I used to think sexism in philosophy was a myth.

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2 years

I passed my viva today with no corrections! I’m so happy, and very excited to start as a Issac Newton Trust Career Development fellow @Cambridge_Uni @magdalenealumni in September 🎉 #PhDone #DrCec

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9 months

She’s here, she’s 🔥

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5 years

Achievement unlocked: Gave a philosophy talk in Athens in a room named “Socrates”, went to visit the acropolis afterwards.

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2 years

FINISHED THE PHD THESIS 🎉 (and escaped to the mountains). #PhDone

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5 years

Me @ LSE b like

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Cecily Whiteley

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3 years

Depression is more than a low mood, it’s a shift in consciousness -- My new piece (co-authored with @birchlse ) is out in Aeon+Psyche!

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3 years

Depression is more than low mood – it’s a change of consciousness by @cecilymwhiteley and Jonathan Birch

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5 years

Where did all my money go? A thread. #myterminbooks #bibliophileproblems

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Cecily Whiteley

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3 years

If your partner doesn’t react like this to your academic work they barely understand then you’re doing the partner thing WRONG

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

2 years

Some personal news! Really excited. Anyone have any tips or advice on things to do in NH/Vermont? Let me know!

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2 years

Congratulations to @cecilymwhiteley , who's won a prestigious 3-year postdoctoral fellowship at @dartmouth College's Society of Fellows for her new project: "Global States of Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift for Psychiatry"! Congratulations Cecily!

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1 year

It's my first time 'on the other side' reading english vs american letters of recommendation. The american letters are just like everyone says and very amusing - sort of like 'person X is the BEST PHILOSOPHER IN ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS' kind of vibes

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3 years

Really happy to see this today!👩🏻‍🏫

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3 years

🎄A Very Merry Christmas: Ayer Addition 🎄

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

5 years

I’ve never met an actual scientist so ignorant of the history of their academic research field.

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5 years

I've never met a scientist whose actual research or theorizing was influenced by philosophy of science. The philosophers are just shouting into the void.

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Cecily Whiteley

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5 years

On the Relation between the Science and Philosophy of Consciousness | I'm going to be blogging over the next few days on this topic, please RT!

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1 year

What philosophical word/concept do you think has done the most damage to philosophical progress?

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5 years

my first meme y'all

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8 months

First day of lecturing in my new academic home @univofstandrews . Descartes this week. ✌️

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3 years

I received two really nice emails today about my paper that was published last year. One of the philosophers suggested that we as a community should send these 'reaching out' emails to the author(s) of papers we like more often, and I agree. Made my day just a little brighter.

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2 years

Who have I become

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3 years

Undergraduate Cecily is FREAKING OUT #Nagel #theviewfromhere

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4 years

Philosophers, I'm thinking of setting up a virtual space for advertising / creating virtual reading groups. Who would be interested in having a virtual reading group?

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Cecily Whiteley

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4 years

Thrilled that my paper “Aphantasia, imagination of dreaming” is now out put in Phil studies! feedback and comments most welcome 🎉

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

6 months

This is the dance that philosophers do when we attempt to approach a scientist to talk about electrons

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A Rainbow Lorikeet attempting to charm a Kookaburra.

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

2 years

Really happy to been awarded the Popper Prize for my BSPS paper “Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness” 🎉 Going to miss my philosophical home @LSEPhilosophy 🥹!

LSE Philosophy

@LSEPhilosophy

2 years

We are pleased to announce that four LSE Philosophy students have been awarded with the Popper Prize and The John Watkins Memorial Prize 2021-22 – Congratulations! cc @cecilymwhiteley 🎉 🔗 List of all awardees:

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

5 years

Me when random phuggles (non philosophy folk) try to job-shame me on the basis that “philosophy isn’t exactly going to get you into medical school”.

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

3 years

Hot off the press 💥💥 @chrisletheby

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2 years

Who wants to tell them

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3 years

A philosopher who doesn’t engage in meta-philosophy is like an astronaut who says “ I want to explore the universe beyond this Earth” but stops and investigates only the moon

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

3 years

As an undergrad, I used to stress about fitting my ideas within a 2,000 word essay. As a masters student, about fitting my ideas into 5,000 word essays. As a PhD student, I am now stressing about fitting all my work into a 60,000 thesis. Will it end?

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

4 years

That philosophers shouldn't die on hills (i.e. that they should always be willing to change their views in light on potential evidence).

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

1 year

Petition for all academic conferences to be in Italy going forward 👑

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@cecilymwhiteley

5 years

Philosophers, what’s the aim(s) of philosophy in your opinion?

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

9 months

It’s giving new home 🙃

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Cecily Whiteley

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3 years

The philosophical therapy I never knew I needed. 🍀

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@cecilymwhiteley

10 months

Me during my MPhil @kingsphilosophy vs my PhD @LSEPhilosophy

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

10 months

Vintage ✨

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

3 years

Ok, here goes: philosofriends, do you have any recommendations for me on Serious Philosophical Literature on drunkeness? Did Plato talk about this at all?

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

5 years

Being able to get up each day and do philosophy (and get paid for it) is a privilege, the novelty of which never wears off. Still can't believe it. #phdchat

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

3 years

The perfect beer doesn’t exi

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

5 years

We 👏🏼 need 👏🏼 to 👏🏼 recognise 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 mental 👏🏼capacities 👏🏼of 👏🏼non human animals 👏🏼

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@aeonmag

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What are the psychological consequences of farming practices such as separation, early weaning and living in poor conditions? Just what you would expect

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Cecily Whiteley

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4 years

Philosophy friends! - i'm currently putting together a future syllabus for a course on the ethics of belief. What, in your view, are the must read papers in this field?

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

4 years

I don’t know how it happened but I moved to @LSEPhilosophy 2 years ago and now I have a paper with Carnap in the title.

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

3 years

Remembering that time when I thought a three year philosophy degree would provide me with the solid ethical foundation needed to move on with my life and be a good person LOL

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Cecily Whiteley

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7 years

my relationship with metametaphysics.

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5 years

today in teaching: fell off a desk and all the students laughed

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Cecily Whiteley

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5 years

Btw this arrived yesterday! Thanks everyone for the helpful recommendations

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3 years

Philosophers of psychiatry! what are your favourite philosophical works on the nature of depression?

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3 years

Many, if not all, other academic degrees include UG modules on methodology within their discipline. Why is philosophy mostly exempt from this?

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11 months

Today is my brother’s birthday. We miss you Matt ❤️ Today’s gentle reminder that mental health research saves lives.

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5 months

I'm becoming increasingly interested in the phenomenon of rapidly growing number of diagnoses of mental disorders, and what, if anything, this tells us about the validity of psychiatric categories. Any reading recommendations on this?

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@cecilymwhiteley

3 years

Really curious: philosophers, how long, on average, do you spend on a paper from start till finish? (And by finish I mean send to journals not publication!).

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

2 years

How do I tell my partner that I bought more books? 🫣

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@cecilymwhiteley

2 years

Peer reviewing recently has really made me worried about the state of the discipline. Submitting papers which are clearly not ready for publication benefits no one.

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5 years

There’s just so much philosophy to read & think through and then way too little time. Anyone have any tips on how to improve on this?

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2 years

Philosophy and psychology twitter. I'm thinking an awful lot about moods lately. What are your favourite articles/books etc. on the nature of moods?

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@cecilymwhiteley

6 years

‘’Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up’’ - Thomas Nagel 😍

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

4 years

Why do undergraduate Philosophy degrees rarely include Wittgenstein ?

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

5 years

Anyone else constantly have to work like this? #academiccats @AcademicsSay @academicswrite

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

3 years

Officially made it one year around the sun with this one! Excessive balloons (pictured) really were (literally) the only way to celebrate. #2021

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

5 years

Had the worst academia day, please send hugs #meninphilosophy

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

4 years

“and now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that things you believed your whole life arnt true, and that nothing is what it appears to be”❤️

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Cecily Whiteley

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4 years

I’m missing my philosophy books which are stuck in London. Fortunately, my flat mate has assured me they're being put to good use in my absence.

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

3 years

Journal: Do not use italics for emphasis or definitions, or to convey meaning in any way.

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3 years

I’m going to a philosophy-themed Halloween party tonight and I’m SO EXCITED

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4 years

meta-ethics courses should come with a health warning

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4 years

Are there any existentialists out there?

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9 months

(Almost) first day 👩🏻‍🏫

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4 years

pragmatism is really growing on me

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Cecily Whiteley

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3 years

Surfacing briefly from my marking slumbers to share two good things - I will be visiting NYU next semester (yay) and that the conference I'm organising for 2022 has been awarded funding from @BspsThe and the Mind Association! It's on 'Natural Kinds in the Mind'.

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5 years

I know which side I’m on, do you?

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5 years

Narrator: reader, it took more than three

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5 years

How many philosophers does it take to turn on presenter mode? #assc23

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Cecily Whiteley

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4 years

Doing my first prolonged re-reading of first order moral philosophy since undergrad. I'm baffled that I once used to be able to read this stuff *without* seeing that the majority is all post-rationalisation of pre-theoretical ethical beliefs. It's madness.

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3 years

Why the whole world continuing like Thomas Nagel DIDN'T solve philosophy in 1986.

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3 years

From my year in Berkeley as a 19 yo I became friends with only 5 people with connections to the philosophy department. Two of them were later assaulted by John Searle. Two young budding philosophers. Anyone who thinks sexual harassment isn’t an issue in philosophy is deluded.

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6 months

Lecturing on free will today (yay!) and this is all I can think about #Nagel

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Cecily Whiteley

@cecilymwhiteley

4 years

Here’s a thought: meta-philosophy is valuable in the same way in which philosophy of science is valuable (if it is) to science: an examination of the methods, foundations and purpose of philosophy which can - in many cases - improve actual philosophical practice.

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@cecilymwhiteley

4 years

Philosophers, i'm curious: for those of you who generally disregard/ disvalue meta-philosophy (in all its forms) what are your reasons for doing so?

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1 year

I’ll go first. Phenomenal consciousness. Next up, content.

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3 years

Philosophers of consciousness. Does anyone have reading recommendations for work on cross cultural variations on hard problem intuitions?

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3 years

Ok last one, I'm stopping. This might be my favourite.

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4 years

are we in agreement though that philosophy *is* a way of life?

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5 years

So excited to hear that my paper on dreaming has been accepted for presentation at this years @theASSC in Canada! I had the best time at the conference last year. Looking forward to new consciousness chats and meeting up with friends in June :) #ASSC23

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5 years

Lot’s of contemporary metaphysics must go, it seems, but is consciousness here to stay? | New Post on my blog! please RT

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3 years

I can’t even watch trash tv anymore without getting trolled 😭

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1 year

Happy day celebrating my doctorate @LSEPhilosophy ft. @SoulPhysics @ellakwhiteley 💖✨👩🏻‍🎓

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7 years

Long overdue book purchase

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5 years

It gets worse. A DIFFERENT philosophy guy who is a friend of mine just sent me this .... 👀👀

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3 years

Just found out I'm going to be TA-ing next year on an advanced course on philosophy of race and gender and I'm super excited!

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@cecilymwhiteley

3 years

when you meet someone new in your field and they say 'aren't you on twitter?'

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1 year

Rainy days, and I’m in the mood for resentment.

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3 years

Imagine being a non-cognitivist

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5 years

Karl Popper and LSE philosophy

Karl Popper and the growth of LSE Philosophy | LSE History

2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the promotion to Professor of the hugely influential philosopher, and founder of LSE's Philosophy Department, Karl Popper.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Cecily Whiteley

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4 years

Happy new year all! How was your NYE? I started the new decade as I mean to go on: arguing with a scientist about the value of philosophy.

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