Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- 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?
- A Revolution in Happiness
- A Philosopher on Brain Rest
- ‘There’s Just No Doubt That It Will Change the World’: David Chalmers on V.R. and A.I.
- Philosophy Now
- RSA Animate
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder
- Why Moral Emotions Go Viral Online
- The Dawn of Self-Consciousness
- A Swiss Army Knife for Your Mind
- The Psychological Key to Creating the Best Version of You
- Can We Rely on Our Intuition?
- Antisense Drugs for Huntington's, ALS and Prion Diseases Could Meet the Dire Need for Brain Treatments
- Certain Personality Types Are Likely to Make a "Foodie Call"
- Blood Tests for Alzheimer's: Two Experts on Why New Studies Are Encouraging
- How We Are Wired for Smell
- TED talks
- How craving attention makes you less creative | Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- When do kids start to care about other people's opinions? | Sara Valencia Botto
- What's at the bottom of the ocean -- and how we're getting there | Victor Vescovo
- "You Have the Rite" | Marc Bamuthi Joseph
- The human skills we need in an unpredictable world | Margaret Heffernan
- What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy | Nanfu Wang
- How policewomen make communities safer | Ivonne Roman
- Why governments should prioritize well-being | Nicola Sturgeon
- The new political story that could change everything | George Monbiot
- An urgent call to protect the world's "Third Pole" | Tshering Tobgay
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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