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The Myth Of The Loneliness Epidemic

Claude S. Fischer | Asterisk | 25th November 2024

Alarms about the decline of friendship are not new. They have been sounded often over decades, even as the claims have been challenged. Friendship rates are harder to track than marriage and divorce rates, not least because people have varying notions of “friend”. Social media magnifies the “Friendship Paradox”: “most of us have friends with more friends than we do”, as the most popular recur on many lists (4,100 words)

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Imperfect Parfit

Daniel Kodsi & John Maier | Philosophers’ Magazine | 22nd November 2024 | U

Critique of David Edmonds’ biography of Derek Parfit. “Philosophers tolerate a high degree of strangeness in one another. Individual eccentricity sometimes becomes too overwhelming to escape remark. In the case of Parfit, one of the first things either a critic or admirer will acknowledge is just how odd a man he was. The book is an entertaining exercise in psychological portraiture by means of anecdote” (4,900 words)

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