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3 philosophers set up a booth on a street corner – here's what people asked

  • Written by Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
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The life choices that had led me to be sitting in a booth underneath a banner that read “Ask a Philosopher” – at the entrance to the New York City subway at 57th and 8th – were perhaps random but inevitable.

I’d been a “public philosopher” for 15...

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