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The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God
Why ethical objections to interfering with nature are too late.
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Anaxagoras | biography - Greek philosopher
Greek philosopher of nature remembered for his cosmology and for his discovery of the true cause of eclipses. He was associated with the Athenian statesman Pericles. About 480...
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Anyone can learn to be a polymath
Our age reveres the narrow specialist but humans are natural polymaths, at our best when we turn our minds to many things
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Desire Is the Truth of It: Jacques Lacan on How to Want Wanting
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?” – Jacques Lacan (1901-1981)
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A Universal Philosophical Refutation
A philosopher once had the following dream...
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The Worst Argument In The World
"I propose that an outright majority of the classic arguments in American politics, and no small number of arguments in religion, philosophy, et cetera, are in fact unmodified examples of the Worst Argument In The World." From the always enlightening Scott Alexander.
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A Dent in the Universe
At higher levels of the Maslow hierarchy, imagination is a survival skill. At the apex, where self-actualization is the primary concern, lack of imagination means death. Metaphoric death followed b…
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The Reality of Color Is Perception
Philosophers have a bad reputation for casting unwarranted doubt on established facts. Little could be more certain than your belief that the cloudless sky, on a summer afternoon, is blue. Yet we may wonder in earnest, is it also blue for the birds who fly up there, who have different eyes from ours?
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Noël Carroll on the paradox of horror
The desire to be scared or disgusted is odd. So why do audiences enjoy the unpleasant in horror fiction and film?
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Dr. Bronner's Fine Print
Steven Heller takes a look at Dr. Bronner's iconic soap label.
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Street artist cleverly trolls a city worker...
,,,and a clever story was told.
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Sorry! And the Nature of Suffering
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes.
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Why You Didn’t See It Coming
You don’t see it coming. You probably couldn’t if you tried. The effects of large changes in scale are frequently beyond our powers of perception, even our imagination.
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Naturalistic Traditions: Were the ancient Skeptics naturalistic?
If ancient Skepticism was so influential in the development of modern science, it stands to reason that it might be a good place to look for the philosophy that underpins it: naturalism. By B.T. Newberg.
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The Enlightenment bull market and its decolonial future
“It should not be acceptable in the Twenty-First century, to speak or write or teach about the Enlightenment as having to do with the histories of rights, ideas and museums, friendship, humanitarianism, without at the same time mapping its direct involvement in the expansion of regimes of slavery, the destruction of other cultures and their values, and dehumanization...” By Richard Drayton.
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The intolerable dream
Don Quixote at four hundred. By Gary Saul Morson.
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The Island of Knowledge
How to Live with Mystery in a Culture Obsessed with Certainty and Definitive Answers. By Maria Popova.
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Can you think yourself into a different person?
We used to believe our brains couldn’t be changed. Now we believe they can – if we want it enough. But is that true? Will Storr wades through the facts and fiction.
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The Doomsday Invention
Will artificial intelligence bring us utopia or destruction? By Raffi Khatchadourian.
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French agency asks academics to shed light on Paris attacks
CNRS issues a call for research proposals in wake of terror
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