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<a href="https://nautil.us/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-jerk-236100/">Eric Schwitzgebel</a> is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures, Perplexities of Consciousness, and Describing Inner Experience? (MIT Press, 2019).

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Brian Gallagher is an associate editor at Nautilus. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/bsgallagher/" rel="noopener">@bsgallagher</a>.

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Believing in Monsters: David Livingstone Smith on the Subhuman

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