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9 Best Articles in 2021
Tim Urban
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1Tim Urban
20+ min read · From 2017 · Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.
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Guardian Tech
The meaning of life in a world without workGuardian Tech
20+ min read · From 2017 · As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines ‘the useless class’ and a new quest for purpose
future of work
work
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Brain Pickings
Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our LivesBrain Pickings
~13 min read · From 2015 · How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love.
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New York Magazine
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and YoursNew York Magazine
20+ min read · From 2016 · An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
distraction
news
meditation
Vox
It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder.Vox
~16 min read · Aug 3rd · Digital distractions such as social media and smartphones wreak havoc on our attention spans. Could they also be making us less ethical?
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attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
I began to notice that digital technology often seems to make it harder for us to respond in the right way when someone is suffering and needs our help.
I began to notice that digital technology often seems to make it harder for us to respond in the right way when someone is suffering and needs our help.
The New Yorker
The Man Who Thought Too FastThe New Yorker
5 min read · 2020-04-27 · Frank Ramsey—a philosopher, economist, and mathematician—was one of the greatest minds of the last century. Have we caught up with him yet?
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Guardian Books
Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can helpGuardian Books
4 min read · 2020-04-25 · The Meditations, by a Roman emperor who died in a plague named after him, has much to say about how to face fear, pain, anxiety and loss
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it’s easy to see how fear can do us more harm than the things of which we’re afraid because it can impinge on our physical health and quality of life
The Atlantic
A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been DebunkedThe Atlantic
9 min read · From 2019 · For decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake.
brain
philosophy
psychology
nature
How philosophy is making me a better scientistnature
4 min read · Apr 27th · Rasha Shraim’s education helped her to think more deeply about ethics, logic and other big questions.
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Philosophy has expanded my critical and creative thinking. Philosophical arguments often lead to imaginative edge cases and a dive into hypotheticals, which I frequently find creatively stimulating.
Thinking creatively while maintaining a critical and methodical approach carried over into my research. For example, studying instrumentalism — the philosophical idea that science does not uncover fundamental truths about the world, but merely provides us with tools to help us navigate it — helped me to adopt a more fluid approach to research and look for useful tools wherever I could find them.
Beyond methods and data, philosophy pushed me to inwardly and outwardly examine the values and ethics behind science. Researchers are human, and our subjectivity and values inevitably influence our work.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: a mind on fireThe New Statesman
~13 min read · Sep 15th · A century after its publication, the philosopher’s Tractatus remains as radical as ever.
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What enables us to show truths about logic and language is what Wittgenstein calls “logical form”, which he likens to pictorial form. In order for a painting or photograph to represent a scene, it must have something in common with it. That something is pictorial form. A painting can picture, say, a hay wain, but it cannot picture the pictorial form that allows it to do so. Likewise, a sentence can say something true about the hay wain, but it cannot say anything about the logical form that enables it to do so.
Weininger argued that every man owes it to himself to develop the genius inside him. He does that by refining as far as possible his ability to distinguish truth from falsity and right from wrong. “Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same,” Weininger writes, “they are no more than duty to oneself.”
“What do I know about God and the purpose of life?”
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Personal Tribute to Charles Millssootyempiric.blogspot.com
6 min read · Sep 21st · Like many in the philosophical world today I am in dismay at the loss of Charles Mills. I feel compelled to honour him with a public tribute...
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Mills' work has been groundbreaking. No survey of black political thought would be complete without him. His most famous work, The Racial Contract, is now an acknowledged modern classic.
Aeon+Psyche
Amalia Holst, and how the German Enlightenment failed womenAeon+Psyche
~13 min read · Sep 13th · Brilliant and fierce, the philosopher and educator Amalia Holst demonstrated how the German Enlightenment failed women
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Guardian Books
Deborah Levy on Simone de Beauvoir’s lost autobiographical novella The InseparablesGuardian Books
4 min read · Sep 10th · The thinly disguised story of De Beauvoir’s passionate adolescent relationship with her childhood friend was deemed too intimate to release during her lifetime. The Booker-shortlisted novelist…
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Peter Singer Wins $1 Million Berggruen PrizeDaily Nous / Justin Weinberg
2 min read · Sep 7th · The 2021 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture, a $1 million prize, has been awarded to philosopher Peter Singer (Princeton University). Nicolas Berggruen, founder of the Berggruen Institute, which…
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