Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- Why Are Poor Women Poor?
- Should Work Be Passion, or Duty?
- Don’t Dismiss ‘Safe Spaces’
- Why Philosophers Shouldn’t Sign Petitions
- Dear God, Are You There?
- Quentin Tarantino’s Cosmic Justice
- Ai Weiwei: Can Hong Kong’s Resistance Win?
- Judith Butler: When Killing Women Isn’t a Crime
- Democracy Is for the Gods
- Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Fascism’ Claim Too Extreme?
- Philosophy Now
- RSA Animate
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- Kids Are Not Hurt by Screen Time
- How Do You Know Which Emotion a Facial Expression Represents?
- Lab-Grown Human Mini Brains Show Brainy Activity
- The History of Opium, Facing Up to Quantum Mechanics and Other New Science Books
- Eavesdropping Puts Anxious Squirrels at Ease
- Fight or Flight May Be in Our Bones
- Even If We Knew Everything That Can Be Known, We Wouldn't Know It All
- Why We Need to Study Consciousness
- No Bones about It: People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their "Skeletons"
- New Clues Found in Understanding Near-Death Experiences
- TED talks
- A free world needs political cartoons | Patrick Chappatte
- How climate change could make our food less nutritious | Kristie Ebi
- What streaming means for the future of entertainment | Emmett Shear
- The dirty secret of capitalism -- and a new way forward | Nick Hanauer
- Community-powered criminal justice reform | Raj Jayadev
- What reading slowly taught me about writing | Jacqueline Woodson
- How deepfakes undermine truth and threaten democracy | Danielle Citron
- How your emotions change the shape of your heart | Sandeep Jauhar
- A "living drug" that could change the way we treat cancer | Carl June
- How we can make racism a solvable problem -- and improve policing | Phillip Atiba Goff
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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