Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- Life Is Short. That’s the Point.
- The Beast in Me
- Our Hubris Will Be Our End
- Revelation of a Liverpool Soccer Fan
- Our Deepest Condolences
- We Are Merging With Robots. That’s a Good Thing.
- The Humanity We Can’t Relinquish
- There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy
- Are We All ‘Harmless Torturers’ Now?
- How We Lost the Sky
- Philosophy Now
- RSA Animate
- Work and the Transition Myth
- Enabling education for all
- Designing a roadmap to ethical AI in Government
- Businesses must go All In for sustainability
- How do governments add value to society?
- Is there hope for Blackpool?
- Does the UK measure up on food and health?
- A Wider Landscape on Democracy
- Type R and Organisational Resilience
- The New Localism: Think Like a System, Act Like an Entrepreneur
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- What Are the Jobs That Immigrants Do?
- Stop Comparing Yourself to Others with These 5 Tips
- Sex, Drugs and Self-Control
- Life at the Improv: The Power of Imagination
- Autism and DDT: What 1 Million Pregnancies Can—and Can't—Reveal
- A Necessary Evil
- An Entirely New Type of Antidepressant Targets Postpartum Depression
- Can Talk Therapy Help People Who Are Unable to Experience Joy?
- Are Boys Better Than Girls at Math?
- Men Who Advocate for Others in the Workplace Face Backlash
- TED talks
- How urban spaces can preserve history and build community | Walter Hood
- How cancer cells communicate -- and how we can slow them down | Hasini Jayatilaka
- What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation | DK Osseo-Asare
- Why I fight for the education of refugee girls (like me) | Mary Maker
- The little risks you can take to increase your luck | Tina Seelig
- How teachers can help kids find their political voices | Sydney Chaffee
- How AI can save our humanity | Kai-Fu Lee
- You are fluent in this language (and don't even know it) | Christoph Niemann
- You may be accidentally investing in cigarette companies | Bronwyn King
- Fake videos of real people -- and how to spot them | Supasorn Suwajanakorn
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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