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How often do ethics professors call their mothers?
Are professional ethicists good people? According to our research, not especially. So what is the point of learning ethics?
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The Relativity of Wrong
"John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."
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This Is Water (David Foster Wallace)
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Excerpt: Shame-Attacking Exercises
This is a brief excerpt from the new book The Philosophy of CBT by Donald Robertson, discussing the similarities between "shame-attacking" exercises in modern REBT/CBT and ancient philosophical tra...
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The Experience and Perception of Time
We see colours, hear sounds and feel textures. Some aspects of the world, it seems, are perceived through a particular sense. Others, like shape, are perceived through more than one sense. But what sense or senses do we use when perceiving time?
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Want An Unconquerable Mind? Try Stoic Philosophy
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The Sleeping Beauty Problem
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Are We Just Molecules in Motion?
Christian apologists object to what they see as the consequences of the naturalistic view—that humans are nothing more than machines. Can this mechanistic outlook explain the facts of consciousness and morality?
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The Library of Babel as Seen from Within
Reproducing Borges’s imaginary library online.Since I first read it in a high school Spanish class, I’ve been fascinated by the theory of language implicit in Borges’s “The Library of Babel.” The story describes a universal library containing, in 410-page volumes, every possible permutation of twenty-two letters, spaces, commas, and periods—every book that’s ever been written...
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Transhumanism – The Final Religion?
After several decades of relative obscurity Transhumanism as a philosophical and technological movement has finally begun to break out of its strange intellectual ghetto and make small inroads into the wider public consciousness. This is partly because some high profile people have either adopted it as their worldview or alternatively warned against its potential dangers... By Dirk Bruere.
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The Egg
Based on the thought provoking short story 'The Egg' by Andy Weir and with a spine-tingling soundtrack from Nils Frahm, this visually powerful short film shot on location amongst some stunning Yorkshire settings sees Andy come to terms with his maker, with his death, and ultimately with his life.
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No, It’s Not Your Opinion. You’re Just Wrong
I have had so many conversations or email exchanges with students in the last few years wherein I anger them by indicating that simply saying, "This is my opinion" does not preclude a connected statement from being dead wrong. It still baffles me that some feel those four words somehow give them carte blanche to spout batshit oratory or prose. And it really scares me that some of those students think education that challenges their ideas is equivalent to an attack on their beliefs. -Mick Cullen
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What makes Hannah Arendt a cosmopolitan?
Hannah Arendt knew how to be a pariah. Is that the key to being a 21st-century cosmopolitan?
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Alan Watts lecture on reality and illusion
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Lady Philosophy: Loving Wisdom in Medieval Rome
A favourite text during the Middle Ages was The Consolation of Philosophy, written by the medieval philosopher, Boethius. In it, we get an unusual style of philosophy that was accessible for a wide audience…
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Do We Cheapen Philosophy When We Use It as Therapy?
Alain de Botton wants the sages to help us feel good. But when Nietzsche gives you a rush, beware. By Tom Stern.
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Evaluating Personal Experience
There are sound reasons for preferring the data from randomized, double-blind, controlled experiments to the data provided by anecdotes when we are searching for causes. Even well-educated, highly trained experts are subject to many perceptual, affective, and cognitive biases that lead us into error when evaluating personal experiences.
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Euhemerization Means Doing What Euhemerus Did
One of the theories Plutarch describes and rejects is what we call the euhemerization theory. So context is key here: he is explaining why euhemerization is not believable. His reason? Because anyone who tries to claim celestial gods were once deified historical persons is doing exactly what Euhemerus did: making a fake history out of a supernatural story.
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Einstein’s Morality
Ching-Hung Woo looks at the many facets of Albert Einstein’s approach to ethics.
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Are You An Emotional Murderer?
If we study the past we might not repeat it, we’re told, so history’s important—though we do repeat it, because the compulsion to repeat is not just an individual matter and mostly not voluntary. We return and return to familiar places, ideas, and beliefs, with enthusiasm, naiveté, and in paroxysms…The murderer returns to the scene of the crime, fascinated, horrified by the act, full of guilt and pleasure and fear.
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