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Meg Fawthrop

Philosophical Marginalia is a collection of essays that analyses fiction through the lens of philosophy

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    I'm a philosophy researcher working on panpsychism. Here I write about the fusion of philosophy and fiction. Often literature tells us about philosophical theories better than any text book.

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