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[Revised entry by Cressida Heyes on February 7, 2012. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The laden phrase "identity politics" has come to signify a wide range of political activity and theorizing founded in the shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social groups. Rather than organizing solely around belief systems, programmatic manifestos, or party affiliation, identity political formations typically aim to secure the political freedom of a specific...

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[Revised entry by Francisco Fernflores on February 6, 2012. Changes to: Main text] Einstein correctly described the equivalence of mass and energy as "the most important upshot of the special theory of relativity" (Einstein, 1919), for this result lies at the core of modern physics. According to Einstein's famous equation E = mc2, the energy E of a physical system is numerically equal to the product of its mass...

A three-part series on the scientific struggle to explain the conscious self

Finding suggests nonhuman primates have theory of mind

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