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9 Philosophical Thought Experiments That Will Keep You Up at Night
9 min read · From 2017 · Sometimes, the best way to illustrate a complicated philosophical concept is by framing it as a story or situation. Here are nine such thought experiments with downright disturbing implications.
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Institute of Art and Ideas
72 Philosophy Books Everyone Should Read
~15 min read · From 2019 · Why am I here? How can I live a good life? What does it mean to have a mind and be a person? Since the days of antiquity, philosophers have puzzled over fundamental questions like these that sit at…
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The History Of Philosophy
From 2018 · summarized & visualized
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EdSurge
The Most Important Skills for the 4th Industrial Revolution? Try Ethics and Philosophy.
8 min read · From 2018 · For those keeping count, the world is now entering the Fourth Industrial Revolution. That’s the term coined by Klaus Schwab, founder and executive ...
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The Wire
In Today's Times, What Is the Role of a Philosopher?
7 min read · From 2020 · In 'Letters to a Young Philosopher', Iranian academic Ramin Jahanbegloo conceives philosophy as an inherently ethical enterprise.
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Here's a simple way we can Improve Analytical Philosophy: Help Others Improve Their Arguments
6 min read · From 2020 · I think there are a number of improvements to widespread practice (no I won't be linking to examples -- feel free to just disbelieve or disagree with me if you want!) that would be relatively easy to…
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Aeon+Psyche
Why the Western philosophical canon is xenophobic and racist
~11 min read · From 2017 · Academic philosophy in ‘the West’ ignores and disdains the thought traditions of China, India and Africa. This must change
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Open Culture
Eminent Philosophers Name the 43 Most Important Philosophy Books Written Between 1950-2000: Wittgenstein, Foucault, Rawls & More
4 min read · From 2018 · Faced with the question, “who are the most important philosophers of the 20th century?,” I might find myself compelled to ask in turn, “in respect to what?”
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Scientific American
New Insights into Self-Insight: More May Not Be Better
4 min read · From 2019 · An innovative study technique yields surprising results that counter the popular idea that knowing yourself is good for you
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New York Magazine
So Apparently There Are 4 Kinds of Introversion
~11 min read · From 2015 · We've got a quiz, if you're curious how you rank.
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Confirmation bias: Why you make terrible life choices
5 min read · From 2017 · You walk into your first yoga class. You’re a little insecure about your weight and how your yoga clothes cling to your body revealing…
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Farnam Street
Against Empathy: Why Reason, not Empathy, leads to Better Decisions
~18 min read · From 2017 · Sometimes empathy helps us and sometimes it hurts us. When it comes to making decisions, our reasoning rather than our ability to empathize matters most.
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List of cognitive biases
20+ min read · From 2015 · Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment, and are often studied in psychology and behavioral economics.[1] Although the reality of these biases is…
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Brain Pickings
Henry Beston’s Beautiful 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Humanity by Breaking the Tyranny of Technology and Relearning to Be Nurtured…
6 min read · From 2017 · “Oh, work that is done in freedom out of doors, work that is done with the body’s and soul’s goodwill, work that is an integral part of life and is done with friends — is there anything so go…
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