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Everybody in the world is brain damaged except me and my Twitter mates is quite the flex.
Cribs and Hunters
E. E. Sheng considers the meteoric rise of the notion of self-plagiarism.
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Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.--Susan Sontag
The average person holds 4.4 philosophical tensions out of a possible 15.
That's 4 pairs of beliefs pulling in opposite directions — like believing all killing is wrong while also believing some wars are just.
Almost nobody scores zero.
How consistent are YOUR beliefs? Take the Philosophical Health Check.
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The Robot Apocalypse is Already Here
But the robots are not what you think, argues Gabriele Contessa.
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Philosophical Malpractice
Daniel Kodsi and John Maier argue that academic philosophers have made serious errors in their approach to trans politics.
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Philosophy Experiment: Framing the Epidemic
Public health meets cognitive bias.
Are you a sure-thing saver or a gambler when lives are at stake?
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The Genesis of a Philosophical Myth
On Schopenhauer throwing a seamstress downstairs
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From the Archive (1998)
Ryle's Concept of Mind
One of the most influential books of the twentieth-century in the philosophy of mind is Gilbert Ryle's "The Concept of Mind" (1949, London: Hutcheson (all references are to this edition). [...]
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How loth were we to give up our pious belief in ghosts and witches, because we liked to persecute the one, and frighten ourselves to death with the other!--William Hazlitt
Hyperintensionality: For or Against? Part I
Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate the nature and existence of hyperintensionality (Part I).
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37% say a private, consensual encounter between adult siblings is morally wrong.
But 66% say it bothers them.
Nearly double. The gap between moral reasoning and gut reaction is one of the most striking findings in moral psychology.
Are your moral instincts leading or following your reasoning?
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[It would be worthwhile] to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world.--Bertrand Russell
Older and Wiser?
Older and Wiser” is a common adage, but is it correct, asks Christine Overall.
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An Air of Unreality
The Gazan genocide narrative is obviously false, argues Russell Blackford.
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