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articles, blog posts, calls for papers, conference announcements, memes on a variety of matters philosophical. and absolutely no cats.
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How Olive Oil Shaped Ancient Greek History, Mythology and Philosophy for 7,000 Years …
greekreporter.com
Study reveals how olive oil shaped Greek mythology, daily life, and philosophy for 7,000 years, from ancient Crete to classical Athens.
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5 Lesser-Known Thinkers of Medieval Philosophy …
thecollector.com
This article explores five lesser-known thinkers within medieval philosophy, including their most notable works and contributions.
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Why Theatre? Thoughts on Theatre of Confusion …
epochemagazine.org
A free online philosophy magazine, delivered monthly
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Kant on Freedom, Nature, and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique …
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One may wonder why we had to wait for so long for a book like Kristi Sweet’s to be published. It is in the Second Introduction to the Critiq...
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Great White Men only: The erasure of women philosophers … https://t.co/60j3io5WSp
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Eileen O’Neill’s foundational article “Disappearing Ink: Early modern women philosophers and their fate in history” (1998) was revelatory for me as a
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Editing Nature To Fix Our Failures: Gene editing may enable us to prevent a species from ever becoming extinct in the first place. But should we? …
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Gene editing may enable us to prevent a species from ever becoming extinct in the first place. But should we?
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Liberal Society Isn’t for Everyone: Our society needs a certain kind of person and our society shapes a certain kind of person. How to align the two? ….
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Our society needs a certain kind of person and our society shapes a certain kind of person. How to align the two?
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What Are the Nicomachean Ethics? Aristotle’s Magnum Opus …
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Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most significant works in Western philosophy. Discover the context in which he wrote his magnum opus.
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The unconscious mind: Was Freud's unconscious a delusion? …
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The idea of the unconscious was first coined by the German philosopher Schelling in the early 19th century and introduced to a British audience by Coleridge. And it was Freud who put the unconscious...
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Goethe: A Life in Ideas, inspired by Rousseau and Spinoza, two thinkers who appealed to and fortified his own disposition …
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Ritchie Robertson: Darkness & Light - Goethe: A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell
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Beyond Folk Marxism: Mind, Metaphysics and Spooky Materialism …
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Why, and how, are any of us capable of self-reflective thought? Of experiencing emotion, ratiocination, preference, cold, whim, melancholy, joy? Anything at all?
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Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem: a discussion about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and the future direction of technology … https://t.co/eejCxU1KdW
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Julien Crockett speaks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and the future direction of technology.
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Learn more about Emil Cioran’s Pessimism in the first part of this podcast from The Partially Examined Life …
partiallyexaminedlife.com
Subscribe to get parts 1 and 2 of this now, ad-free, plus tons of bonus content.On A Short History of Decay (1949), a pessimist/existentialist somewhat text from the most famous Romanian philosopher....
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How Schopenhauer can change your miserable life …
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Philosopher David Bather Woods notes that there is a popular style of philosophical biography that presents the philosopher’s life as a model for how to live well. He tells us his new book on Arthur…
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection? …
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Socrates advocated for the self-examined life, not only in the pursuit of virtue, but also because of his belief that knowledge is not learned but recalled by the soul.
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