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Objections to Plantinga's Modal Ontological Argument (1:09:27)
A video response to InspiringPhilosphy and AntiCitizenX regarding Alving Plantinga’s Modal Ontological Argument for God’s Existence. Basically, I enumerate numerous objections thought I have or have found with the argument and present a case against it, as well as explain some of the important concepts involved with the argument.
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Should We Distrust Atheists?
Philosophical arguments aside, one might wonder about the everyday reality. Are atheists any less trustworthy than believers? Could it even be the reverse — that atheists tend to engage in more ethical behavior than believers? These are, by and large, empirical questions, and they're questions that some scientists have been rigorously tackling.
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‘We Are Creatures That Should Not Exist’
The Theory of Anti-Natalism. By David Benatar.
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Education as a Political Institution (1916)
"Education should not aim at a dead awareness of static facts, but at an activity directed toward the world that our efforts are to create." - Bertrand Russell, June, 1916. No political theory is adequate unless it is applicable to children as well as to men and women. Theorists are mostly childless, or, if they have children, they are carefully screened from the disturbances which would be caused by youthful turmoil.
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I Asked Atheists How They Find Meaning In A Purposeless Universe
If there's no afterlife or reason for the universe, how do you make your life matter? Warning: the last answer may break your heart.
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Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein - Reason, Fiction and Faith
Philosophical novelist Rebecca Goldstein and cognitive theorist Steven Pinker in conversation on literature, science and religion.
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SEAN CARROLL - The Meaning of Life
The world keeps happening in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value. -Sean Carroll | Music: Moby - God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
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Don’t Be Evil: Google, Alphabet, and Machiavelli.
Protecting Google from political contamination from Alphabet’s wider activities is not just necessary for Google—it’s necessary for Alphabet. Google search is mostly safe, mostly helpful, and free: by associating it with grace and favor, as Machiavelli advises, Alphabet can contain possible affairs of reproach elsewhere in its portfolio. This is shrewd statecraft.
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Is God Impossible or Kind of Impossible?
A priori justification ain't what it used to be. There was a time when philosophers and mathematicians perhaps thought that when we engaged in deductive, a priori constructions of proofs for claims from propositions that we know to be true a priori, then those conclusions are as justified as anything can be. That is, when we reason deductively and without error from truths that we know without any appeal to the empirical world, then we acquire new knowledge of a broader world.
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Plato’s Cratylus: The Comedy of Language
Roger Caldwell talks about Plato’s views on language. By S.M. Ewegen.
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The Problem of Symmetrical Threats
Tim Campbell identifies a problem with the standard view of self-defense.
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Novelist Kamel Daoud, Finding Dignity In The Absurd
The most talked-about novel written in French recently is not by a Frenchman, but by an Algerian, newspaper editor Kamel Daoud. It's called The Meursault Investigation, and it's a response to the most famous novel ever written by a French Algerian, a mainstay of the 20th century canon: The Stranger, by Albert Camus.
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Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever
As legions of warriors and prisoners can attest, Stoicism is not grim resolve but a way to wrest happiness from adversity.
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Hans Morgenthau and Hannah Arendt: An Intellectual Passion
They maintained an intellectual companionship for decades—colored, it should be said, by an element of the erotic. By Barry Gewen.
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A two-way medium: Radio Benjamin editor Lecia Rosenthal speaks to Kester John Richardson-Dawes
In an exclusive interview, Lecia Rosenthal speaks to Kester John Richardson-Dawes about editing Radio Benjamin, the first volume to focus comprehensively on Benjamin’s works for radio with many pieces translated into English for the first time. They also discuss Benjamin's critical pedagogy and financial precarity, the auditory aura and questions of citation and obscurity, and what the digital archive has done to our experience of forgetting, loss, and the severing of text from context.
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Wittgenstein Explains Why We Always Misunderstand One Another on the Internet
The best class I took in college was on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Until that point, I had avoided philosophy of language as simply being too esoteric and hermetic to be of use. David Pears, a prodigious yet modest and approachable figure visiting from Oxford, changed my mind.
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Do memory lapses help us to be happy?
Personal identity is tied to memory, but sometimes we find peace, clarity and a true sense of completeness in the lapses. By Marianne Janack.
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Why can’t we stop for death?
‘The Black Mirror’ and ‘The Worm at the Core’ reveal the human obsession with, and denial of, our mortality. By John Gray.
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Interactive Science of Logic
An interactive visualisation of GWF Hegel's circular Science of Logic. One of the most monumental, and difficult, works of philosophy from the last two centuries.
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In Hyperspace
Fredric Jameson reviews “Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative” by David Wittenberg.
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