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The Truth About The Future Of The Skeptic Movement
Daniel Loxton is the editor of Junior Skeptic, a periodical aimed at kids that's bound into every issue of Skeptic magazine. He's also an artist (the image above is from one of his three books about dinosaurs), a cryptid enthusiast, and a passionate advocate of the skeptic movement.
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Learning to Chill
What would intelligent life look like in the frigid, final era of the Universe?
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is the authoritative online resource for philosophy.
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Philosophy Explained, From Plato to Descartes to Zombie David Chalmers
Can one lone pre-Socratic in a canoe teach you everything you failed to learn about philosophy in college? Of course (though how can you be certain that you actually exist, etc.)! In the entertaining, erudite Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy, the game Heraclitus travels down the winding river of philosophical thought...
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A Private View of Quantum Reality
Quantum theorist Christopher Fuchs explains how to solve the paradoxes of quantum mechanics. His price: reality becomes an illusion.
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“We are in a revolutionary moment”: Chris Hedges explains why an uprising is coming — and soon
The status quo is doomed but whether the future will be progressive or reactionary is uncertain, Hedges tells Salon
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Reflections on the skeptic and atheist movements
Groucho Marx, one of my favorite comedians of all time, famously wrote a telegram to a Hollywood club he had joined, that said: “Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.” I have recently considered sending such a letter to the skeptic and atheist movements (henceforth, SAM), but I couldn’t find the address.
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Humanity’s Long Search for the Soul in the Brain
How philosophers and neuroscientists have tried and failed to nail down the precise location of human consciousness.
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How to design a metaphor
The metaphor designer isn’t trying to make something beautiful. She wants to change your view on things. Here’s how. By Michael Erard
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Excerpts from Philosophers’ Breakup Letters Throughout History
The New Yorker sheds some light on how our favorite philosophers dealt with breakups.
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Home | History of Philosophy without any gaps
Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps."
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God of the gaps
A God of the gaps argument is one that argues that since some phenomenon is unexplained, it must be due to God. It is also a form of non sequitur, since the hand of God is posited without proof and often with complete disregard to other possible explanations.
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Einstein vs Bergson, science vs philosophy and the meaning of time
When Henri met Albert the stars didn’t quite align; nor did their clocks. Jimena Canales, historian of science, tells Joe Gelonesi about her discovery of an explosive 20th century debate that changed our view of time and destroyed a reputation.
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Fermi Paradox
What year did humankind acquired the capability to destroy itself? What is the Great Filter and Fermi paradox? Where is everybody in a Universe? This is my personal project inspired by Dan Carlin's 'Hardcore History' series.
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Legendary Victorian Art Critic John Ruskin on the Value of Imperfection and How Manual Labor Confers Dignity Upon Creative Work
"It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity"
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The School of Life - Michel Foucault
I have been impressed by this youtube channel's profiles on philosophers, commentary on capitalism, and other tid bits. Today I was happy to see this video about Foucault, and I'm interested in starting a discussion about our impressions of his theories.
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There's no such thing as free speech,and that's a good thing too by Stanley Fish [PDF]
Free speech, Fish argues in this essay, is what is left over when a community has determined in advance what it does not want to hear. The boundaries of tolerance are always being redrawn in the process of political struggle--and he finds good reason to put "hate speech" beyond the pale.
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Metaphysics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
This article by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy serves to elucidate what metaphysics is(hint:It has nothing to do with the new-age misuse of the term).
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Bill Shankly, Noam Chomsky and the Value of Sport
My blog takes its name from the words of the legendary Liverpool football manager Bill Shankly: ‘Football is not a matter of life and death. It’s much more important than that.’
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Is a Vedantic phenomenology possible by JN Mohanty [PDF]
In this lecture,the noted philosopher JN Mohanty(whose works are cited by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy regarding its phenomenology article) discusses where *advaita*(non-Dual) Vedanta and phenomenology can intersect.
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