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- Should Chimpanzees Be Considered ‘Persons’?
- How to Serve a Deranged Tyrant, Stoically
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- How to Talk About Abortion
- Bannon’s Deviant ‘Badge of Honor’
- You Can’t Put Frederick Douglass in Chains
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- What We Owe to Others: Simone Weil’s Radical Reminder
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- The power of creative thinking
- Regulation of AI: Not if but when and how
- Norwich’s coffee house challenge
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- If Singing's Tough, Try Whistling
- How to Stop Abandoning Projects
- Some Mutations Tied to Autism May Be Passed Down from Fathers
- Miniature Human Brains Grow for Months When Implanted in Mice Skulls
- How to Reconcile with a Romantic Partner
- Forestalling a Fatal Decision
- Total Recall: The Latest Tools for Understanding How Memory Works
- Brain's "Brakes" Suppress Unwanted Thoughts
- Why Everyone Is Insecure (and Why That's Okay)
- A Command Center in the Mammalian Brain Orchestrates Parenting Behaviors
- TED talks
- A Parkland teacher's homework for us all | Diane Wolk-Rogers
- Why it's worth listening to people you disagree with | Zachary R. Wood
- The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico | Nancy Rabalais
- The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment | Mark Tyndall
- A printable, flexible, organic solar cell | Hannah Bürckstümmer
- What's missing in the global debate over refugees | Yasin Kakande
- What if we ended the injustice of bail? | Robin Steinberg
- How we need to remake the internet | Jaron Lanier
- How the arts help homeless youth heal and build | Malika Whitley
- How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky
Category Archives: Essay
Honesty and Charity in Arguments
From NYTimes – By GARY GUTTING, The Stone Link – As a philosophy professor, I spend much of my time thinking about the arguments put forward by professional philosophers. As a citizen (and an occasional columnist for The Stone), I also spend lots of … Continue reading
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The Fallacy of ‘Deepest Offence’
The Fallacy of ‘Deepest Offence’ By Peter Ellerton image via here Nothing is so central to a liberal society as the right to discuss ideas. Not being able to do this at all is totalitarianism – the banning of discussing, … Continue reading
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