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Banned & Challenged Books
BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2016: September 25-October 1.
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Windows on the Will
Zadie Smith reviews “The Polar Express,” a film directed by Robert Zemeckis, “Anomalisa,” a film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, and “On the Suffering of the World,” by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale.
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Neuroscience and Free Will Are Rethinking Their Divorce
A new finding casts an old one in a very different, more free-will-friendly light. By Christian Jarrett.
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Science Is Proving Some Memories Are Passed Down From Our Ancestors
Recent studies have provided evidence that memories of fear are one of many things our forebearers pass down to us through our DNA. By Aaron Kase.
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Are Moral Facts Not Natural Facts? Everything Wrong with the Shafer-Landau Thesis
Is moral truth a priori and not a natural property of the universe? So says Dr. Russ Shafer-Landau (as articulated in Whatever Happened to Good and Evil in 2003; and Moral Realism: A Defence in 2005). Even though I’m sympathetic to his project, he’s just wrong. And not merely wrong, but too obviously wrong for this to still be a thing in 21st century philosophy. Here I’ll explain why I think that.
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Wittgenstein, bewitched
Tim Crane reviews Ian Ground and F. A. Flowers III's "Portraits of Wittgenstein."
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25 Things About Life I Wish I Had Known 10 Years Ago
We might learn things quickly, but we often forget things at the same rate—and sometimes we need to remind ourselves of the things we’ve learned.
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Yes, There Will Be a Downturn. No, You Shouldn’t Freak Out. Here’s Why.
Will there be a downturn? Absolutely. But be wary of despair that everything looks like ruins around you. Someone is making money.
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Googling Is Believing: Trumping the Informed Citizen
The political importance of information — and the fear that it can be manipulated — has not changed. What has changed is how we are informed about politics or anything else, or how we aren’t. The worry is no longer about who controls content. It is about who controls the flow of that content.
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Clouds and Dirt: Prioritizing, the Oxygen of Your Business, and Why the Middle Sucks
You’ve got to be able to simultaneously think at a high level and get your hands dirty.
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Why so many scientists are so ignorant
Science has a fundamentalism problem. By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry.
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After the Fact
In the history of truth, a new chapter begins. Google and Big Data have ushered us into a crisis of knowledge. By Jill Lepore.
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Fallacy Friday #1 The Argument from Popularity for Believing In a Deity (Any of Them).
It’s time for the first ever Fallacy Friday! So what’s a “Fallacy”? I know most vocally irreligious people have encountered theists who will try and either convert or re-convert them (depending on one’s original stance relative to the questions concerning the existence of a deity), so we tend to be familiar with their arguments and with the fallacies that at least a few of these arguments present to us.
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10 Things That Abruptly Happen When Real Leadership Shows Up
The moment you’re ready to become a leader, you will experience these changes almost immediately in your life.
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How to Go From Successful to Very Successful (and Why Most People Can’t Do It)
Success is over-rated. It’s the game most people are playing. And it’s generally a losing game.
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22-year-old Hunter S. Thompson tells you the meaning of life
When Hunter S. Thompson was 22 years old, he was contacted by a friend looking for advice on the meaning of life. His response was bizarrely profound, especially for his age, packing the punch of a heavyweight philosopher or seasoned-author. This letter, never meant to be published...
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Thinking about logical fallacies
While we may go through specific, common fallacies and how to spot them in future videos, this video offers a quick review of validity and soundness along with some thoughts on the sort of heuristic processes our brains might use when evaluating claims. I've included some tips on how to practice analyzing arguments - because you're not going to be an expert overnight!
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Philosophers are using science and data points to test theories of morality
“The philosophical problems that can be solved from the armchair have already been solved.” By Olivia Goldhill.
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America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny
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The Adventures of Mark Twain - The Mysterious Stranger (1985)
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