Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of St Andrews
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Latest book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203/against-identity-by-douglas-alexander/9780241648216
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#degrowth #Piketty
'a set of bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment from materially intense sectors like industry and mining to education and health.'
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Against Identity is out in paperback tomorrow! www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203...
Sorry for the advertising, but it’s my first public-facing book, so I’m excitable.
Here are the reviews in the Guardian and the Telegraph:
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
I don't like to have philosophical opponents; to have opponents seems unphilosophical.
But I keep being struck by how much of my Spinozist-Daoist position on identity and agency, also on teleology and essences, can be captured by the rule: If Korsgaard asserts that p then ¬p.
