Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- How to Die (Without Really Trying)
- Faces in a Nursing Home
- We Need a Monument to the Unknown America
- Don’t Fear Dying. Fear Violence.
- Should We Cancel Aristotle?
- Was This Ancient Taoist the First Philosopher of Disability?
- What if We Could Have Meat Without Murder?
- Montaigne Fled the Plague, and Found Himself
- Policing Is Doing What It Was Meant to Do. That’s the Problem.
- White America Wants Me to Conform. I Won’t Do It.
- Philosophy Now
- News: August/September 2020
- How Do We Understand Each Other?
- What Colour Are Numbers?
- Paul Wood’s Cartoon
- Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle
- Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)
- The Battle for the Robot Soul
- Back to the Future
- Virtual Reality as a Catalyst for Thought
- The Singularity of the Human Hive Mind
- RSA Animate
- The Green Corridors Initiative
- Governance governing government
- Why print money when we can print wealth?
- Building a resilient health and care system
- We'll always have Paris?
- Experimentation and equity in global cities
- Technology-enabled deliberative democracy
- Healthier placemaking
- Creating a sovereign wealth fund in Wolverhampton
- Economic recovery and climate action
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- The Masks We Wear to Survive
- We Need to Do More Research on Honesty
- The U.S. Has an Empathy Deficit
- How to Be a Mystical Skeptic
- The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Changing Our Dreams
- How to Do Better for Your Middle School Student
- Why Pet Pigs Are More like Wolves Than Dogs
- Why Trump-Favoring Voters Ignored a Deadly Hurricane Warning
- How Do I Know I'm Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?
- Fighting Back against the Stigma of Addiction
- TED talks
- 3 secrets to Netflix's success | Reed Hastings
- How your personality shapes your politics | Dannagal G. Young
- Why I fight for climate justice | Xiye Bastida
- Secrets of the mind and free will -- revealed by magic tricks | Alice Pailhès
- What role does luck play in your life? | Barry Schwartz
- Why do we blame individuals for economic crises? | Liene Ozoliņa
- You shouldn't have to choose between filling your prescriptions and paying bills | Kiah Williams
- The psychology of inequality and political division | Keith Payne
- How to win an argument (at the US Supreme Court, or anywhere) | Neal Katyal
- A lesson in turning adversaries into allies | Leah Garcés
Category Archives: Original Philosophical Texts
Philosophical Zombies
From the concept by Chalmers. Could humans exist that are not conscious? The extract below is from his site. Philosophical zombies It is philosophical zombies that I’m most interested in here, since I’m a philosopher and they raise very interesting … Continue reading
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Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory
Great paper on Reasoning Why Do Humans Reason? (pdf) Abstract and authors below… Abstract: Reasoning is generally seen as a means to improve knowledge and make better decisions. However, much evidence shows that reasoning often leads to epistemic distortions and poor … Continue reading
Hume, David – A Treatise on Human Nature
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Locke, John – Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Books 3 & 4)
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Locke, John – Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Books 1 & 2)
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Aristotle – Ethics
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Plato – The Republic
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More, Sir Thomas – Utopia
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Hume, David – Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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Nietzsche, Friedrich – Beyond Good and Evil
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Mill, John Stuart – On Liberty
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Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) – Critique of Practical Reason
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Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) – Critique of Pure Reason
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