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AGAINST INSULARITY Hellenism, Zionism, and the Greek archipelago …
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Hellenism, Zionism, and the Greek archipelago
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Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe …
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Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole universes. What they’re finding has them questioning fundamental assumptions...
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Vital Signs: Pursuing the Life Force …
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Our wanting is a kind of evolutionary force that compels us toward existential action.
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Copying Consciousness: The Future of Mind Uploading …
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Whole-brain emulation (often called “mind uploading” in science fiction) refers to the possible future ability to scan a human brain in such detail that a digital replica could be created, capable of...
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3 Contested Dialogues of Plato (Authentic or Not?) …
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Some scholars believe these Platonic dialogues were not written by Plato at all. Why are these three dialogues contested?
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What is analytic philosophy? A vexed question indeed. Whatever it is, it gets a thorough bashing in a new social history, an unremittingly hostile survey of the subject from its forefathers – Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore—to the present day …
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What is analytic philosophy? A vexed question indeed. Whatever it is, it gets a thorough bashing in Christoph Schuringa’s new social history, an
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Artist Eduard Bigas revisits the itinerary of Walter Benjamin in his new exhibition …
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The painter and visual artist Eduard Bigas, born in 1969 in Palafrugell, proposes an intimate encounter with one of the ...
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What Philosophy Can Teach Us About Parenting …
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The baby-led parenting trend encourages us not to judge and correct bad behavior. But that may not be wise, writes Maria Balaska.
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Learn more about Josiah Royce on Community in this podcast from The Partially Examined Life …
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On sections of The Problem of Christianity (1913) which establish Royce's concept of a community of interpretation: individuals working together with a sense of shared history and expectation. He...
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Drowning in the Shallows: Peter Singer and the roots of effective altruism …
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Peter Singer and the roots of effective altruism.
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Adorno's Gamble: Harnessing German Ideology …
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Much has been written regarding the roster of thinkers who contributed to Theodor Adorno’s distinctive thought, most notably Marx, Hegel, Benjamin...
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What Is the Future of the Self in a Hyperconnected World? Philosophy Answers …
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Hyperconnectivity can redefine the self by blending individuality and collective identity, but it also raises challenges of authenticity, fragmentation, and loss of identity.
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The roots of AI in Chinese philosophy …
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Leaders in China hope that AI and robotics can finally resolve the flaws of a centralized planned economy. But US technoculture has an edge.
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The philosophy of science: On scientific thinking and why ‘truth’ isn’t final …
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On scientific thinking and why ‘truth’ isn’t final
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Do Androids Dream? The philosopher John Searle’s concept of Intentionality and his Chinese Room experiment reveal the differences between AI computation and human thought …
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The philosopher John Searle’s concept of Intentionality and his Chinese Room experiment reveal the differences between AI computation and human thought.
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Physicists and philosophers have long struggled to understand the nature of time: Here’s why …
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How can time feel so obvious, so woven into the fabric of our experience and yet, for thousands of years, remain the bane of every thinker who has tried to explain it?
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The self creates itself out of nothing: Fichte and overcoming the paradox of the self …
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Debates about the self tend to fall into two opposing camps. Many today argue that the self is an illusion. Conversely, critics of this view argue the self is undeniable, claiming that the self is...
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How to read philosophy: The first thing to remember is that the great philosophers were only human. Then you can start disagreeing with them …
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The first thing to remember is that the great philosophers were only human. Then you can start disagreeing with them
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