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May 28, 10:56 PM
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A world-renowned philosopher has told FRANCE 24 she's still shocked that 20 years after she coined the phrase "epistemic injustice", she is still talking about it. Miranda Fricker is now Julius Silver…
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March 26, 10:17 PM
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Everything you believe is wrong
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February 1, 11:48 PM
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Love and Morality: Nietzsche’s “Beyond Good and Evil” About halfway through Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche wrote one of his most enigmatic and seductive maxims: “What is done out of love …
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November 8, 2025 5:44 PM
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We are meaning-seeking creatures in a meaningless world, wired to look for something we cannot find. How can we deal with that?
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August 10, 2025 8:36 PM
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Schopenhauer called the ontological argument for the existence of God a “charming joke.” When you first hear it, it can seem like a slightly ridiculous semantic trick based on a completely arbitrary…
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May 25, 2025 11:53 PM
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If we could stop bickering about which creatures do or don’t deserve to be called smart, an emerging movement of scientists and philosophers argue that we might discover fundamental elements of intelligence that are common to all life.
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May 18, 2025 10:05 PM
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The world’s most famous living philosopher has launched a chatbot to deal with ethical dilemmas. One former philosophy student-turned-journalist tests it out
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May 9, 2025 12:15 AM
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Philosophical debates about the nature of mind have long been dominated by abstraction, intuition pumps, and speculative thought experiments. From Descartes’ dualism to behaviorist black boxes to…
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January 5, 2025 6:34 AM
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Is reincarnation real? Is communication from the “beyond” possible? A small group of academics are trying to find out, case by case.
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August 1, 2024 10:26 PM
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The world’s top athletes are desperately pursuing their best performance at the Paris Games. They know the tiniest slip can mean the difference between a place on the podium and a painful defeat. We shouldn’t be afraid of ambition.
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December 8, 2023 6:55 PM
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Sapolsky summarises the latest scientific research relevant to determinism: the idea that we’re causally ‘determined’ to act as we do and couldn’t possibly act any other way.
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July 11, 2023 7:51 PM
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Storytelling computers will change the course of human history, says the historian and philosopher | By Invitation
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March 20, 2023 8:57 PM
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Brian King says only if some specific conditions are met.
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April 18, 12:16 AM
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The essential breakthroughs in Plato’s philosophy, from the nature of justice to the immortality of the soul.
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February 5, 9:17 PM
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Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden cabin.
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November 18, 2025 9:00 PM
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Proponents of the Pythagorean school of thought in ancient Greece believed reality is fundamentally mathematical.
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September 17, 2025 12:58 AM
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What would our philosophers and spiritual leaders have to say about ‘virtue signalling’? They might be in agreement
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May 25, 2025 11:54 PM
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This piece explores the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ideas about how our relationship to the world and to ourselves is shaped by our interactions with primordial others. “Primordial otherness”…
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May 25, 2025 9:49 PM
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Aboriginal peoples of Australia have produced socio-political order for tens of thousands of years by using landscape as both template and inspiration — making them perhaps the world’s oldest political designers. Unsurprisingly, newcomers to the continent have not been interested in listening to or accepting these forms of socio-political ordering. That needs to change.
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May 15, 2025 6:46 PM
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A few years ago I was driving home from work. It had been raining all day, it wasn’t icy but the roads were wet. I was tired, I took a sharp corner too quickly, and the back of the car spun out…
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April 29, 2025 10:12 PM
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Our value judgement is sometimes clouded by emotions, like anger and hatred. According to Nietzsche, it is actually worse: our morality as a whole was made by anger directed at superiors, or what he…
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December 4, 2024 6:44 PM
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If it’s true that we live in a vast multiverse, then our understanding of identity, morality and even God must be reexamined
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April 18, 2024 11:23 PM
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For Margaret Macdonald, philosophical theories are akin to stories, meant to enlarge certain aspects of human life
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November 6, 2023 12:22 PM
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Bernard Williams argued that one’s ethics is shaped by culture and history. But that doesn’t mean that everyone is right
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June 18, 2023 4:56 AM
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In interviews I gave while touring the US and UK to publicise an updated version of the book, the most frequent question was: have we made progress in our treatment of animals since 1975?
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