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Is Consciousness a Ghost in the Machine?
A new theory speculates how consciousness arises in the brain. By Joel Frohlich.
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Euclid as Founding Father
We hold this mathematics to be self evident. By Adam Kucharski.
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How They Wrestled with the New
Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume lived in a historical period dominated by dramatic developments and conflicts in three areas—science, religion, and politics—and their thoughts and writings were dominated by the need to respond to those developments, and to understand the relations among them. By Thomas Nagel.
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The civic drama of Socrates trial
Conventional wisdom sees Socrates as a martyr for free speech, but he accepted his death sentence for a different cause. By Josiah Ober.
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Lévi-Strauss, philosopher among the Indians
The life of the anthropologist and thinker, Lévi-Strauss. By Adam Kuper.
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Philosopher-Kings in the Kingdom of Ends: Why Democracy Needs a Philosophically-Informed Citizenry
How do you turn a democracy into a tyranny? The answer, as those familiar with Plato’s Republic will know, is: Do nothing. It will become a tyranny all by itself. By Richard Oxenberg.
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Philosophers on Rachel Dolezal
Rachel Dolezal, in recent years has portrayed herself physically, and on social media platforms, as a woman of black African-American heritage. However, her parents, who are both white say their daughter is not African-American. With Esa Diaz-Leon, Meena Krishnamurthy, Rebecca Kukla, Charles Mills, Daniel Silvermint, and Quayshawn Spencer.
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Does Your ‘Self’ Have a Soul?
Most religions claim that there is more to the self than the brain. The traditional understanding is that human sentience and selfhood are conveyed via some kind of nonphysical substance, often called a ‘soul.’ By Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
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Beyond humans, what other kinds of minds might be out there?
From algorithms to aliens, could humans ever understand minds that are radically unlike our own? By Murray Shanahan.
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Thinkers at War – John Rawls
‘To each according to his threat advantage does not count as a principle of justice.’ John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 1971.
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The Philosophy of BOJACK HORSEMAN – Wisecrack Edition
Behind the colorful animations and snarky one-liners is a show that's astonishingly deep – a series that ponders important philosophical questions about living life in a meaningless universe. From Pascal to Sartre, we'll dive into the thinkers and philosophies that are foundational to the show's underlying message.
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Why Haters Hate: Kierkegaard Explains the Psychology of Bullying and Online Trolling in 1847
“Showing that they don’t care about me, or caring that I should know they don’t care about me, still denotes dependence... They show me respect precisely by showing me that they don’t respect me.” By Maria Popova.
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Remote Control
Stefan Molyneux’s podcast empire, Freedomain Radio, has been called a cult. If it’s not, why are listeners suddenly rejecting their families? By Linda Besner. (Oct. 6, 2016)
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Plato’s best (and worst) ideas
Few individuals have influenced the world and many of today’s thinkers like Plato. He created the first Western university and was teacher to Ancient Greece’s greatest minds, including Aristotle. But even he wasn’t perfect. Along with his great ideas, Plato had a few that haven’t exactly stood the test of time. Wisecrack gives a brief rundown of a few of Plato’s best and worst ideas.
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Camera-phone Lucida
Facebook is Sauron. It’s also your mom’s couch, a yoga-center bulletin board, a school bus, a television tuned to every channel. Twitter is Grub Street, a press scrum, the crowd in front of a bar. Reddit is a tin-foil hat and a sewer… By Jacob Mikanowskiin.
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These 11 YouTubers with disabilities will make you laugh, think and learn
Getting candid on camera.
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Kierkegaard’s Rebellion
Kierkegaard is widely considered the most important religious thinker of the modern age. This is because he dramatized with special intensity the conflict between religion and secular reason, between private faith and the public world, and he went so far as to entertain the thought that a genuine reconciliation between them is impossible. By Peter E. Gordon.
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“Good men are God in the flesh”
“[I]n an era marked by the rise of Lynch Law, across the U.S. American South, restrictions on voter rights, and a turn away from African American rights across the nation, Frederick Douglass traveled widely, and used his podium to argue that any person, notwithstanding physical attributes, class, or caste, could attain virtue…” By Daniel Joslyn.
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The Consolations of Philosophy
What I saw at Stoicon 2016. By Blake Seitz.
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Probabilistic and Logical Errors in Arguments of “Fine-Tuning”
In 1802, when William Paley published Natural Theology, his famous “Watchmaker Argument” became a hallmark formulation of the “Argument from Design,” an argument which attempts to show that the universe must have had a designer.
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