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Why You Have to Replace Ambition with Play
What does “play” have to do with it?
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Continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will ultimately lead to "Philosophy"
There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to “Philosophy.” This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use more general terms. And here is a tool that confirms this claim - https://xefer.com/wikipedia
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Where the Wild Things Are: Anomalies and the Poverty of Critical Thinking
“People tend to say ‘I like independent thinkers but they must think what I want them to think independently’” – Rassool Jibraeel Snyman.
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An Unexpected Encounter with Set Theory in the Wild
How a routine trip to the art museum became a meditation on the empty set. By Evelyn Lamb.
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Body and Soul
Considering the eternal dance of Eros and Thanatos. By Noga Arikha.
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32 Animated Videos by Wireless Philosophy Teach You the Essentials of Critical Thinking
Do you know someone whose arguments consist of baldly specious reasoning, hopelessly confused categories, archipelagos of logical fallacies buttressed by seawalls of cognitive biases? Surely you do. Perhaps such a person would welcome some instruction on the properties of critical thinking and argumentation? Not likely?
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Bad things happen for a reason, and other idiocies of theodicy
The problem of evil is a classic dilemma in the philosophy of religion. The relative ease with which the problem can be stated belies the depth of the challenge that it presents to traditional monotheism.
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So you’re surrounded by idiots. Guess who the real jerk is
Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around? Then maybe you’re the one with the jerkitude. By Eric Schwitzgebel.
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The secret to living a meaningful life
Your ambitions to improve your life do not need to be confined by your personality. By Christian Jarrett.
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A Glimpse of the Future: AI Will Change Everything
We can’t predict the future, but we can do our best to prepare for it. And in the face of an inevitable economic transition, preparation has to start now.
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Lasagnacat's hourlong analysis of a single, three-panel Garfield strip
Aka 07/27/1978
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Friend of Foe?: A Lovely Illustrated Fable About Making Sense of Otherness
A playful illustrated inquiry into whether mutual attentiveness is enough to dissolve enmity into friendship.
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Panpsychism is crazy, but it’s also most probably true
Common sense tells us that only living things have an inner life. Rabbits and tigers and mice have feelings, sensations and experiences; tables and rocks and molecules do not. Panpsychists deny this datum of common sense. According to panpsychism,...
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The Council of Elrond
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
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Is Consciousness an Illusion?
For fifty years the philosopher Daniel Dennett has been engaged in a grand project of disenchantment of the human world, using science to free us from what he deems illusions—illusions that are difficult to dislodge because they are so natural. In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, his eighteenth book, Dennett presents a valuable and typically lucid synthesis of his worldview. By Thomas Nagel.
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Women swooned
Shahidha Bari on lately reclaiming the existential legacy.
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Plutarch: the father of anti-democracy
Hardly a week goes by without someone applauding Thomas Carlyle’s objection to democracy: ‘I do not believe in the collective…
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How Mindfulness Helps You Cultivate a Teflon Mind - Mindful
Sometimes negative thoughts and feelings need to roll off of us.
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Why Foucault’s work on power is more important than ever
Original, painstaking, sometimes frustrating and often dazzling. Foucault’s work on power matters now more than ever. By Colin Koopman.
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Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’
The visionary historian, author of two dazzling bestsellers on the state of mankind, takes questions from Lucy Prebble, Arianna Huffington, Esther Rantzen and a selection of our readers
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