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The Great Philosophers 1: Plato
Athens, 2400 years ago. It’s a compact place: around 250,000 people live here. There are fine baths, theatres, temples, shopping arcades and gymnasiums. Art is flourishing, and science too.
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Amazing but true: America is only four presidents’ lives old
When President Obama was born (1961), President Herbert Hoover was still alive (1874-1964). When Hoover was born, President Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) was still alive. When President Johnson was born, President John Adams (1735-1826) was still alive. And just like that, we've connected present day to the Founding Fathers. Curiosity about how (and how much) the presidents overlapped was spurred by this discussion, looking at which two things coexisted...
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The Unreal Universe
Perception, Physics and the Role of Light in Philosophy
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Distorting Putin’s Favorite Philosophers
Amid the endless demonization of Russian President Putin, David Brooks and other upscale U.S. pundits have taken to misrepresenting the views of several Russian philosophers whom Putin is known to admire, apparently following the theory that whatever Putin likes must be evil, as Paul R. Grenier explains.
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Can we harness telepathy for moral good?
Will the next generation of telepathy machines make us closer, or are there unforeseen dangers in the melding of minds? By Kat McGowan
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Men And Women Use Different Scales To Weigh Moral Dilemmas
Would you kill a young Hitler to prevent World War II? Men are more likely to say yes, a study finds, while women weigh the moral cost of murder along with lives saved.
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Psychopaths and Moral Blame: Empirical and Philosophical Issues
Empirical studies seem to suggest that psychopaths lack important moral capacities (such as the capacity for empathy). Some philosophers use this empirical evidence to suggest that psychopaths fail to meet the basic conditions for moral blameworthiness. In this post, I want to take a look at the arguments these philosophers use to support this conclusion.
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Life is full of people with bad ideas and awful opinions. Try to meet as many at university as you can
Universities should be havens of free speech. After all: where else can you find out what the Other Buggers Are Thinking?
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A Strange Philosophical Manuscript. A Secret Benefactor
The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician
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The Religion With No Name
By Brian C. Muraresku
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Einstein as a Jew and a Philosopher. By Freeman Dyson
Why would anybody want to write another book about Albert Einstein? Why would anybody want to read it? These are two separate questions, but both of them have satisfactory answers. In spite of the large number of books already written about Einstein, there is still room for one more.
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Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer
Computer scientist Stuart Russell wants to ensure that our increasingly intelligent machines remain aligned with human values.
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What is the Self? Watch Philosophy Animations Narrated by Stephen Fry on Sartre, Descartes & More
These four videos draw on Socrates’s work on what it means to know oneself (and the limits of one’s knowledge); Erving Goffman’s (The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life) Shakespearean observation that we all play roles on this stage of a world; Rene Descartes‘ famous declaration “I think, therefore I am”; and Jean-Paul Sartre’s concept of human existence preceding human essence.
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What happens to people when they think they're invisible?
Using a virtual reality headset and simple deception, neuroscientists in Sweden have found a way to create the sensation of personal invisibility. This sensation, they say, causes people to be less socially anxious.
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The Last Word On Nothing From Freud to Feynman: Curious Thoughts of Curious Minds
I wonder why I wonder. I wonder why I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder!
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Sam Harris Made Himself Look Like an Idiot in a Email Exchange with Chomsky and Has Shared It with the World
Why would he make this public?
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Einstein, Gödel, and Our Strange Experience of Time: Rebecca Goldstein on How Relativity Rattled the Flow of Existence
“Is there anything we know more intimately than the fleetingness of time, the transience of each and every moment?”
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Reviving the Female Canon
Philosophy anthologies treat prominent women thinkers as if they never existed.
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Does Color Even Exist?
What you see is only what you see.
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How Thinking About Death Shapes Your Life
We're all going to die and we all know it. This can be both a burden and a blessing.
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