9 Best Articles in 2021
Tim Urban
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1
Tim 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.
Guardian Tech
The meaning of life in a world without work
Guardian 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
Brain Pickings
Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives
Brain Pickings
~13 min read · From 2015 · How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love.
New York Magazine
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
New 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.
The New Yorker
The Man Who Thought Too Fast
The 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?
Guardian Books
Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help
Guardian 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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The Atlantic
A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked
The Atlantic
9 min read · 2019-09-10 · For decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake.
nature
How philosophy is making me a better scientist
nature
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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Ness Labs
Sophrosyne: the art of mindful moderation
Ness Labs
3 min read · Feb 9th · Sophrosyne is a combination of moderation, self-control, and temperance. This ancient virtue can act as a guide to better manage our emotions.
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An Interactive Visualization of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Open Culture
2 min read · May 19th · 2020 was “a year for the (record) books in publishing,” wrote Jim Milliot in Publisher’s Weekly this past January, a surge continuing into 2021.
Aeon+Psyche
There was no such thing as ‘Renaissance philosophy’
Aeon+Psyche
~12 min read · May 31st · Humanism did not replace Scholasticism, nor is it clear that ideas like the Renaissance help us understand history at all
Aeon+Psyche
The dangers of public philosophy according to Leo Strauss
Aeon+Psyche
9 min read · May 20th · For Leo Strauss, public life was muddied by opinion and persecution, so philosophers should shield their work from view
Aeon+Psyche
A philosophical guide on how to manage dangerous art
Aeon+Psyche
~13 min read · May 27th · Tearing down sexist paintings or racist monuments raises as many problems as it resolves. There’s a better way to combat hate
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Aeon+Psyche
My words have meaning, your parrot’s do not. Wittgenstein explains
Aeon+Psyche
7 min read · Jun 2nd · For Wittgenstein, meaning and understanding reside, not in some mysterious private realm, but entirely in the public domain
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The End of Analytic Philosophy
sootyempiric.blogspot.com
6 min read · May 23rd · One of the nice things about having a blog and job security is that I can just make things up. So here's my sense of the recent historical t...
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Mind Chat
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May 22nd · Listen to Mind Chat on Spotify. Philip Goff is a philosopher who thinks consciousness pervades the universe. Keith Frankish is a philosopher who thinks consciousness* doesn't even exist. From their…
Harvard University
Tracing Amartya Sen’s journey from colonial India to Nobel Prize and beyond
Harvard University
6 min read · Jun 4th · Indian economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, talks about his life as the son of distinguished Hindu academics and how the inequities all around him in colonial…
Aeon+Psyche
Why doesn’t philosophy progress from debate to consensus?
Aeon+Psyche
~12 min read · Jun 11th · For centuries, all philosophers seem to have done is question and debate. Why do philosophical problems resist solution?
Five Books
The Best Thomas Hobbes Books | Five Books Expert Recommendations
Five Books
20+ min read · May 27th · The best Thomas Hobbes books, as recommended by McGill University philosopher and political scientist Arash Abizadeh
