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Author Glenn McLaren

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Glenn McLaren

Glenn McLaren teaches philosophy at Swinburne University. Melbourne, Australia. Prior to becoming a philosopher he spent most of his working life as a fitness trainer. His main interest, therefore is in health, both of humans and the biosphere. As a process philosopher, he has a particular interest in transforming philosophy to make it more relevant to addressing our current and future global crises.

‘The Good Place’: Good Show, Bad Ethics

Glenn McLaren
Society & Culture, Uncategorized
My daughter and I have been watching a US TV series over the summer called ‘The Good Place’. We enjoy it and find it one of the funniest and cleverest comedies we have seen for some time. What makes it...

From Big Things Little Things Grow

Glenn McLaren
Uncategorized
This article is for those who, like me, despair over the performance of our global leaders who seem intent on accelerating us towards self-destruction. I hope to give some guidance as to how we can judge them...

Jordan Peterson, Destroyed

Glenn McLaren
Education, Philosophy, Politics & Economics, Uncategorized
Early in 2018 I was searching YouTube for Stephen Colbert’s latest monologue on the Trump administration and I discovered a lecture on problems with postmodernism and neo-Marxism in universities. Having...

AI Assessment is Anti-Human

Glenn McLaren
Science & Medicine
There is much talk at the moment about the continuing evolution of artificial intelligence technologies and what the implications of this will be for the future of humanity. Those such as Ray Kurzweil can’t...

Science Owes Us An Apology

Glenn McLaren
Philosophy, Science & Medicine
Recently Australia celebrated Science Week when all around the nation people celebrated the discipline's wondrous achievements. As usual, there was a particular focus on science in schools with the theme this...

The Young Pope and Our Responses to Decadence

Glenn McLaren
Arts & Culture
In his 1995 book After the Future, Russian philosopher and Culturologist, Mikhail Epstein, discusses the tense relationship between civilization and culture. Drawing upon previous theorists of civilization,...

The Perverse Art of Destroying Meaning

Glenn McLaren
Philosophy, Politics & Economics
In an article in The Conversation from early 2016 titled, "Why Was Stephen Fry Fried On Twitter?" Australian philosopher, Clive Hamilton, criticizes the unreflective political correctness culture of digital...
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