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Both in the work of professional philosophers and in popular writings by natural scientists, it is frequently claimed that natural science does or soon will constitute the entire domain of truth. And this attitude is becoming more widespread among scientists themselves. All too many of my contemporaries in science have accepted without question the hype that suggests that an advanced degree in some area of natural science confers the ability to pontificate wisely on any and all subjects.
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Meaning comes from the pursuit of more complex things than happiness Delete the scoop?
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British philosopher and author of several influential works of science fiction. Stapledon's writings directly influenced Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Stanislaw Lem, C. S. Lewis and John Maynard Smith and indirectly influenced many others, contributing many ideas to the world of science fiction. Delete the scoop?
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Mi Gyung Kim (2008) has challenged the historiographical assumption that phlogiston was the paradigmatic concept in eighteenth century chemistry. Delete the scoop?
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This is the third part of a four-part series on the pulps under totalitarianism. Delete the scoop?
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What does it mean to kill your supper? When you are a hunter, you face the fact that something must die if you are going to eat meat. Delete the scoop?
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Both in the work of professional philosophers and in popular writings by natural scientists, it is frequently claimed that natural science does or soon will constitute the entire domain of truth. And this attitude is becoming more widespread among scientists themselves. All too many of my contemporaries in science have accepted without question the hype that suggests that an advanced degree in some area of natural science confers the ability to pontificate wisely on any and all subjects.
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In one of this weekend’s more discussed bits of commentary, Christy Wampole writes against irony and its archetypal manifestation, the Millennial hipster. Delete the scoop?
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You may have already heard about Strike Debt, the new offshoot of Occupy Wall Street that aims to buy and forgive personal debt. If not, you have now, because it’s pretty much that simple: Strike Debt takes direct action against individuals’ debt by buying it on the open market for pennies on the dollar and then simply writing it off. It’s a symbolic act, meant to draw attention to the massive amount of debt Americans are saddled with. But it also has the very real effect of relieving actual people of their financial obligations. One organizer, NYU professor Nicholas Mirzoeff called it “a purely altruistic gesture.” Delete the scoop?
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What is a map, and which maps are memory’s or imagination’s to invoke, and then how? What lies in the incantatory power of names, or in the pull North or South, West or East? Delete the scoop?
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MARQUETTE — For many of us, foraging for food means opening cupboards or the refrigerator. Delete the scoop?
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There’s nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope. On a recent trip to Heidelberg to procure some rare nineteenth-century duelling scars, I happened upon just such a treasure. Who would have thought that “Friedrich Nietzsche’s Diet Book” existed
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Findings that undermine thinking on the evolution of cooperation face a strong challenge. Delete the scoop?
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David Pitts on Epimenides of Crete and his infamous Liar Paradox. Delete the scoop?
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John Stuart Mill meets Peanuts, or how to handle mummies like Carl Jung. Delete the scoop?
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In the aftermath of tragic events like the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., people often question why an all-powerful God would allow such evil to happen. Delete the scoop?
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Dogs rescue their friends and elephants care for injured kin: are humans the only moral beings after all? Delete the scoop?
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In his most recent book, A Case for Irony, Jonathan Lear argues that becoming a human being is a difficult task, and that developing a capacity for irony is essential to doing it well. Delete the scoop?
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If life has become an endless series of sarcastic jokes and pop references, a competition to see who can care the least, we've made a collective misstep. Delete the scoop?
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Mark Kingwell on fugitive democracy, the cultural role of philosophers, and hockey-borne Canadian antiintellectualism... Delete the scoop?
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They have already pronounced solemnly on the acceptable curvature of cucumbers. Delete the scoop?
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In this paper, I articulate and defend a conception of trust that solves what I call “the trickster problem.” The problem results from the fact that many accounts of trust treat it similar to, or identical with, relying on someone's good will. But a trickster like Bernie Madoff could rely on your good will to get you to go along with his scheme, without trusting you to do so.1 Therefore, any account of trust that treats trust as relying on another's good will is subject to the trickster problem. Delete the scoop?
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In the 1600s, French philosopher René Descartes split the world into two kinds of stuff: material stuff subject to the laws of physics and immaterial stuff that operates according to some other set of rules. Delete the scoop?
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“[T]he Author of Nature has determin’d us to receive… a Moral Sense, to direct our Actions, and to give us still nobler Pleasures.”
That appeal was made in 1725 by Scottish philosopher Francis Hutcheson, and it captured one side of a debate that tries to answer the question: Where does morality come from? On the other side were thinkers like John Locke and Thomas Hobbes who believed that morality is the product of experience. That was the extent of the discourse for most of history; morality was either prepackaged or learned. End of story Delete the scoop?
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