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Anil Gomes is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford. His book reviews have appeared in the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement, and he featured in BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time episodes on Kant’s Copernican Revolution and Iris Murdoch.
Where is the line between professional philosophy and self-help? And how did we end up with this stark divide?
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