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- Should I Give Up on White People?
- Should Chimpanzees Be Considered ‘Persons’?
- How to Serve a Deranged Tyrant, Stoically
- How Democracy Can Survive Big Data
- How to Talk About Abortion
- Bannon’s Deviant ‘Badge of Honor’
- You Can’t Put Frederick Douglass in Chains
- Why Are We Surprised When Buddhists Are Violent?
- James Bond Is a Wimp
- What We Owe to Others: Simone Weil’s Radical Reminder
- Philosophy Now
- RSA Animate
- The New Localism: Think Like a System, Act Like an Entrepreneur
- Blockchain platforms can enable good work
- Museum Conservation and 21st Century Education
- Anchors Aweigh: Universities and local industrial strategies
- The Non Sense of Work Life Balance
- The rights of people with a disability are being ignored – what can we do?
- Bringing classical music to a new audience
- 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: 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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