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Sinead Murphy

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Sinead Murphy is Associate Researcher in Philosophy, Newcastle University, UK.

What autism is not

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In What Autism Is, I characterized autism as exclusion from the existential empathy on which meaningful human experience relies. Autistic people are irretrievably remote from...

What autism is

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Imagine that we do not know what blindness is. Imagine that we describe people as blind very often, but that we do not know what...

The Season for Living

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In October 2020, Bob Moran published a cartoon privately on social media. Bob was still employed by the Telegraph (UK) newspaper, though he would soon...

The confiscation of reality

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The UK Meteorological Office has just reported that we have enjoyed the hottest May on record. Meanwhile, those of us who have lived in the...

Technocrats cut Ireland at the knees

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Driving home after Christmas, we pulled in at the last toll plaza on the M8 to Cork. It had been dark for hours with ‘Storm...

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