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Five reasons why moral philosophy is distracting and harmful
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~15 min read · 2021-07-23 · Moral philosophy is bogus, a mere substitute for God that licenses ugly emotions. Here are five reasons to reject it
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Why doesn’t philosophy progress from debate to consensus?
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~12 min read · 2021-06-11 · For centuries, all philosophers seem to have done is question and debate. Why do philosophical problems resist solution?
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How the Anglophone world is rediscovering Hegel’s philosophy
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~16 min read · 2021-10-26 · Too dense, too abstract, too suspect, Hegel was outside the Anglophone canon for a century. Why is his star rising again?
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Imre Lakatos and the philosophy of bad science
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~12 min read · From 2020 · For the émigré philosopher Imre Lakatos, science degenerates unless it is theoretically and experimentally progressive
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In genetics as in philosophy, existence precedes essence
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~11 min read · From 2020 · Every human is both an animal with a deep evolutionary history and an individual who must bring their existence into being
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How Wittgenstein might ‘solve’ both philosophy and quantum physics
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Philosophy at war: nationalism and logical analysis
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~14 min read · From 2020 · Should philosophy express the national character of a people? Bertrand Russell’s ‘scientific’ philosophy was a bulwark against nationalism
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Why we should read Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy today
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~12 min read · 2020-10-09 · Written while awaiting execution, the Consolation of Philosophy poses questions about human reason that remain urgent today
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The self is not singular but a fluid network of identities
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~13 min read · 2021-05-18 · You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity
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