9 Best Articles in 2021
Tim Urban
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1
Tim Urban
1400 saves · From 2015 · 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 · 744 saves · 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 · 697 saves · 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 · 639 saves · 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
4 min read · 567 saves · 2020-05-04 · Anthony Gottlieb · 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 · 516 saves · 2020-04-25 · Donald Robertson · 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
The Atlantic
A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked
The Atlantic
8 min read · 507 saves · 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.
The Guardian
How technology disrupted the truth
The Guardian
20+ min read · 453 saves · From 2016 · Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism
New Statesman
Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
New Statesman
8 min read · 424 saves · 2020-09-22 · Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of…
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Why Epicureanism, not Stoicism, is the philosophy we need now
New Statesman
4 min read · 162 saves · Jan 6th · What ideas come to mind when you hear the word “Epicurean”? Probably: wine snob, gourmet cooking, foppish, superficial, idle, frivolous, decadent, selfish and, of course, pleasure-seeking. Pleasure –…
Brain Pickings
Why We Like What We Like: Poet and Philosopher George Santayana on the Formation and Confirmation of…
Brain Pickings
2 min read · 124 saves · Jan 7th · Maria Popova · “Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.”
Aeon+Psyche
How the philosophers’ philosopher, Saul Kripke illuminates identity
Aeon+Psyche
~14 min read · 81 saves · Jan 4th · No one with an interest in philosophy or debates about identity can afford to be ignorant of the work of Saul Kripke
Aeon+Psyche
Cynicism was born when Diogenes rejected materialism and manners
Aeon+Psyche
1 min read · 80 saves · Jan 19th · Free like a street dog: cynicism evolved from ‘dog philosophers’ such as Diogenes who rejected materialism and manners
Aeon+Psyche
How does philosophy explain what’s wrong with gentrification?
Aeon+Psyche
~13 min read · 79 saves · Jan 14th · The exclusion of poorer people from their own neighbourhoods is not just a social problem but a philosophical one
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The Intersection of Neuroscience and Philosophy
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46 saves · Jan 6th · (Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Is there a science of the soul? Does how we think about the brain define how we think about ourselves? Patricia Churchland, B. ...
Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Social Philosophy Course
Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg
34 saves · From 2018 · Justin Weinberg · Martin Luther King, Jr. was a visiting professor at Morehouse College in the early 1960’s.* While there, he taught a senior seminar in social and political philosophy. What was on the syllabus? Here’s…
Open Culture
How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in America
Open Culture
4 min read · 27 saves · Jan 18th · Josh Jones · 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…
