Prospect
The Hume paradox: how great philosophy leads to dismal politics
11+ min · · The Enlightenment genius showed how admirable scepticism in the world of ideas can translate into a miserable reactionary stance in the world of practical affairs · Shared by 201, including Massimo Pigliucci, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Microphilosophy | Philosopher 🧠, Ceferino Díaz, Yenson She, Anita Leirfall, Anita Hill
The Guardian
The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?
20+ min · · The long read: A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. Could they be right? · Shared by 425, including Albert Ràfols, Connie Ragen Green, Rick Powell, Anita Leirfall, Miguel Angel Escotet, Evan Selinger, Gregg Caruso, Uyên Đỗ, Anita Hill, Robert Talisse, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, justin caouette, Barry Ritholtz, Shubhankar Adhikari, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social
Aeon+Psyche
To find the truth, we must establish the meaning of falsehood
6 min · · In the early stages of Western philosophy, falsehood – not truth – was a dominant concern. Why does a ‘mistaking mind’ matter? · Shared by 260, including Jason Silva, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Barry C Smith, Anita Leirfall, Miguel Angel Escotet, Doug Sundheim, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Anita Hill
The School of Life
Why Stoicism Continues to Matter
8 min · · Stoicism is a philosophical school born in Ancient Greece and later dominant in Ancient Rome which continues to have urgent things to teach us about calm, resilience and emotional stability. Arguably… · Shared by 234, including Gabriele, Fabrizio Bianchi, Kamil Ali Kamil, Anita Hill
Quanta Magazine
What Is Life? Its Vast Diversity Defies Easy Definition.
6 min · · Scientists have struggled to formulate a universal definition of life. Is it possible they don't need one? · Shared by 334, including Anita Hill, John Hagel, Brian Ahier, Carl Zimmer
Boston Review
The Value of Truth
11+ min · · At a time of anxiety about fake news and conspiracy theories, philosophy can contribute to our most urgent cultural and political questions about how we come to believe what we think we know. · Shared by 164, including Robert Talisse, Cailin O'Connor, Liam Bright, Anita Hill, Ceferino Díaz, Jason Stanley, Jonathan Kogan
Brain Pickings
Stunning Celestial Art from the 1750 Astronomy Book That First Described the Spiral Shape of the Milky Way and Dared…
8 min · · The story of a forgotten visionary suspended between science and spiritual yearning, who inspired Kant and anticipated Hubble. · Shared by 51, including Anita Hill, Charles Duhigg
Aeon+Psyche
How should you choose the right right thing to do?
16+ min · · The ethical life means being good to ourselves, to others, and to the world. But how do you choose if these demands compete? · Shared by 386, including Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Jason Silva, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Anita Leirfall, Stephanie A Kowalski, Doug Sundheim, Scott Monty, Anita Hill
Aeon+Psyche
Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thinking
5 min · · Pseudophilosophy can result from simple misunderstanding or wilful obscurity. The cure is basic critical thinking skills · Shared by 227, including Nir Eyal, Anita Leirfall, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), F ΞRπλ N-DØ (he, him), Kevin Roberts, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Jason Silva, l. ones, Anita Hill, John Tasioulas, Massimo Pigliucci
Aeon+Psyche
Conceptual overreach threatens the quality of public reason
15+ min · · Human rights, health, the rule of law – why are these concepts inflated to the status of totalising, secular religions? · Shared by 165, including Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, John Tasioulas, Matthias Lampe, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Anita Hill, Ceferino Díaz, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Massimo Pigliucci, Gregg Caruso
Aeon+Psyche
The antidote to fake news is to nourish our epistemic wellbeing
7 min · · There’s more to wellbeing than physical and mental health: we also need epistemic wellbeing, or good access to knowledge · Shared by 158, including Doug Sundheim, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Anita Hill, Bilal Aslam, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Luminous Kaleidoscope, Jason Silva, Anita Leirfall
documentjournal.com
The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
11+ min · · “To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.” · Shared by 174, including Surface Magazine, Amicitia, Christian Surchi, Richard MacManus, Neil Lee, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Anita Hill, Bas Grasmayer, front-end.social/@heydon, Kevin Roberts, Robin Kwong, Kyle Bunch, Katja Evertz
Open Culture
How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in America
4 min · · Image by Dick DeMarsico, via Wikimedia Commons The influence of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on the revolutionary philosophy of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels is well known. Marx wrote a critique of… · Shared by 78, including Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Nolen Gertz, Nathan Oseroff-Spicer, Anita Hill
Aeon+Psyche
How does philosophy explain what’s wrong with gentrification?
14+ min · · The exclusion of poorer people from their own neighbourhoods is not just a social problem but a philosophical one · Shared by 109, including Anita Hill, Anita Leirfall, Alejandro Dominguez, Faik Ersoy
Aeon+Psyche
How Samuel Beckett sought salvation in the midst of suffering
15+ min · · Samuel Beckett turned an obscure 17th-century Christian heresy into an artistic vision and an unusual personal philosophy · Shared by 96, including Trae Blain, Jason Silva, Anita Hill, Andy West, keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org on Mastodon 🦣, Anita Leirfall
The New Statesman
The four thinkers who reinvented philosophy
9 min · · In 1936, writing from exile in Paris, the German-Jewish writer Walter Benjamin looked back at the storms of the recent past with clear-eyed despair. Everything had happened so quickly that it was… · Shared by 152, including Jonathan Kogan, Coll, Miguel Angel Escotet, Dr Rani Lill Anjum 🐦, Barry C Smith, Jeremy Cliffe, Anita Hill, Ceferino Díaz, Jason Stanley