The TLS
The privilege of boredom: Philosophy in isolation
· Philosophy essay - The TLS | How philosophy can happen in isolation, an essay by Anil Gomes · Shared by 131, including Guy Longworth, Bilal Aslam, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Barry C Smith
Aeon+Psyche
Chinese philosophy has long known that mental health is communal
5 min · · The early Chinese philosophers knew that a healthy mind comes from a harmonious community, not a matter for individuals alone · Shared by 290, including Anita Leirfall, Liv 😷, Constantine Sandis, Patricia Churchland, Jason Silva, Christopher Mims 🤌, Carly, Miguel Angel Escotet, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), LoriBeth
Aeon+Psyche
Aphorisms tell philosophy’s history as fragments, not systems
10 min · · What if we see the history of philosophy not as a grand system of sustained critique but as a series of brilliant fragments? · Shared by 186, including Massimo Pigliucci, Howard Getson, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Anita Leirfall, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Kevin Roberts, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Rich
The School of Life
Our Right to be Miserable
2 min · · The official religion of modernity is happiness. It sounds pleasant but being asked to smile is an extremely coercive requirement. There is a freedom that our age seems subtly yet horribly keen to… · Shared by 170, including dawidzamojdamail, l. ones, Fabrizio Bianchi, Ceferino Díaz
Aeon+Psyche
What is the problem with ethical trolley problems?
12+ min · · Are thoughts experiments experiments at all? Or something else? And do they help us think clearly about ethics or not? · Shared by 239, including Nolen Gertz, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Jo Wolff, David V. Johnson, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Miguel Angel Escotet, Doug Sundheim, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Anita Leirfall, ExApologist
The Atlantic
Why Birds Do What They Do
9 min · · The more humans understand about their behavior, the more inaccessible their world seems. · Shared by 43, including Liv 😷, Dan Hill
medium.com
The never-ending death of analytic philosophy
13+ min · · The death of analytic philosophy has been announced many times. Talk of ‘postanalytic philosophy’ has started up, then fizzled out again… · Shared by 115, including Tim Crane, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Jason Stanley
The Correspondent
The neoliberal era is ending. What comes next?
20+ min · · In a crisis, what was once unthinkable can suddenly become inevitable. We’re in the middle of the biggest societal shakeup since the second world war. And neoliberalism is gasping its last breath. So… · Shared by 360, including ron boger, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Michael Seemann, Matteo Furia, Carlos Hernández Herrera, Mike Troiano, Jelmer Mommers, Mark Coeckelbergh, Akshat Rathi, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Bruce Daisley, Mark Little, Rutger Bregman, Gutly Myrat, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy 🦋, Todd Chas, Ruben Feurer, Rob Wijnberg, Nando de Freitas 🏳️🌈, Krishna
Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg
Uncovering A New Approach to Teaching Philosophy Texts (guest post)
3 min · · “Texts can be challenging in multiple ways, some more useful than others…” The following is a guest post* by Emma Kresch and Sophie Gitlin, who are both sophomores at Claremont McKenna College. They… · Shared by 78, including Stephen Law
Aeon+Psyche
How the cruel moraliser uses a halo to disguise his horns
15+ min · · Cruelty and morality seem like polar opposites – until they join forces. Beware those who persecute in the name of principle · Shared by 189, including Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Gregg Caruso, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Liv 😷, Patricia Churchland, Tim, John Tasioulas, Rick Powell, Paul Graham, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Kevin Roberts, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Kathleen Stock, Anita Leirfall, Howard Getson
The TLS
Bertrand Russell
· Bertrand Russell | Footnotes to Plato | Andrew David Irvine considers Bertrand Russell’s conception of the truly liberal thinker · Shared by 81, including Anita Leirfall
Gizmodo
This Philosopher Is Challenging All of Evolutionary Psychology
7 min · · It’s not often that a paper that attempts to take down an entire field. Yet, this past January, that’s precisely what University of New Hampshire assistant philosophy professor Subrena Smith’s paper… · Shared by 266, including Bilal Aslam, ExApologist, Dr Rani Lill Anjum 🐦, Barry C Smith, justin caouette, Jason Stanley, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Ceferino Díaz, Riley Black 🦕🏳️⚧️, Anita Leirfall