KeithWorld Economic Forum What can these celebrated philosophers teach us about modern living?weforum.org - Michael Hauskeller Western democracies are in a state of crisis. The liberal world order that was created after World War II is crumbling and we don’t quite understand …
Keith This is how neurophilosophy informs our understanding of human natureweforum.org - Nayef Al-Rodhan Philosophy of culture has a long history of reifying culture(s) in opposition to nature. This goes a long way back to the Greek Sophists. Hippias, …
KeithMartin Heidegger Learning, Without Illusions, From A Nazi Philosopherdailynous.com - Justin Weinberg I do take seriously Heidegger’s claim that some of his key philosophical ideas provided the basis for his political commitments. I have tried to …
KeithIcon version of the Flipboard logoAristotleAristotle on Earlier Greek Psychology: The Science of the Soul // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notrend.edu - Jason W. Carter Book I of Aristotle's De Anima (DA) is an oft-neglected portion of the Aristotelian corpus, even among specialists in Aristotle's psychology. DA I is …
KeithMorality Is Moral Relativism Really a Problem?scientificamerican.com - Thomas Pölzler Suppose you believe abortion is permissible. Would that belief alone make it so? No? Then how about if most Americans believed it? Would that suffice? …
KeithLudwig Wittgenstein Secular pilgrimageaeon.co - Julian Baggini Visiting Wittgenstein's home evokes the philosopher's serious, ascetic mind (no doubt he would disapprove its restoration)By Julian BagginiRead at …
Keith 10 schools of philosophy and why you should know thembigthink.com - Scotty Hendricks For your reading pleasure, here are ten schools of philosophy you should know about. Some of them are commonly misunderstood, and we correct that …
KeithMind Human intelligence: have we reached the limit of knowledge?The Conversation UK - Maarten Boudry Despite huge advances in science over the past century, our understanding of nature is still far from complete. Not only have scientists failed to …
KeithIcon version of the Flipboard logoOptimism Schopenhauer the Optimistphilosophynow.org Duncan Richter explains why Schopenhauer thinks art, especially music, can provide a kind of salvation.
KeithAmerican Philosophy Out of mind: philosopher Patricia Churchland's radical approach to the study of human consciousnessprospectmagazine.co.uk - The question of how our minds work is one of life's greatest mysteries, fascinating scientists and philosophers alike. When Churchland brought their ideas together she provoked fury—and admiration Back in the 1980s, a wife-husband philosopher team known as “the Churchlands” provoked the ire of their peers with the heretical claim that the best …
KeithFriedrich Nietzsche It's a mad world: but these great thinkers may help you understand the current political messThe Conversation UK - Michael Hauskeller Western democracies are in a state of crisis. The liberal world order that was created after World War II is crumbling and we don’t quite understand …
KeithWorld News Why Simone de Beauvoir rejected the idea of the 'strong woman'theweek.com - Kate Kirkpatrick In The Second Sex (1949), Simone de Beauvoir argued that women were at a disadvantage in a society where they grew up under "a multiplicity of …
KeithGreek Philosophy Five Books: The best books on Aphorisms, recommended by Andrew Huifivebooks.com - Confucius (trans. Edward Slingerland) Unusually, you have written a book about the aphorism. Let’s start with the most basic question: What is an aphorism? To be aphoristic about it, an …
KeithConsciousness What Makes for a Good Philosophical Argument, and The Common Ground Problem for Animal Consciousnessschwitzsplinters.blogspot.com What is it reasonable to hope for from a philosophical argument? Soundness would be nice -- a true conclusion that logically follows from true …
KeithPhilosophy Book Club: The Art of Living, 1, The Skeptics don’t believe in the art of living. Or do they?medium.com - Figs In Winter John Sellars’ The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy is one of the best books I’ve read recently about philosophy …
KeithIcon version of the Flipboard logoLudwig WittgensteinWittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy: Re-examining the Roots and Development of Analytic Philosophy // Notrend.edu - Oskari Kuusela Questions about how best to understand Wittgenstein's methods have been a focus of debate in recent work on his philosophy, both early and late. One …
KeithBooks This Life and Outgrowing God review – heaven, atheism and what gives life meaningThe Guardian - Oliver BurkemanDawkins's career in evolutionary biology might stand as an exemplar of the kind of life Hägglund urges us to live Years ago, the magazine US Catholic ran a headline that had the air of being written by
KeithIcon version of the Flipboard logoPopular FictionFictive Narrative Philosophy: How Fiction Can Act as Philosophy // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notrend.edu - Michael Boylan In the latest addition to the Routledge Research in Aesthetics series, Michael Boylan presents a thesis on the use of narrative in philosophy; a …
KeithSocrates Talk, Tragedy, Totalitarianism: The Problem of Socrates in Modern Timesmedium.com - Harvard University Press There were heroic lives and deaths before and after, but none quite like Socrates’. He did not die by sword or spear, braving all to defend home and …
KeithBooks Left for Dead: On the Philosophical Life and Vocation of Walter Kaufmannlareviewofbooks.org - By Robert L. Kehoe III “NOBODY ENTIRELY LACKS the will to be honest; but most people settle for a rather small share of it.” These are the words of Walter Kaufmann, who …
KeithLudwig Wittgenstein Overrated: Ludwig Wittgenstein | Crispin Sartwell | Standpointstandpointmag.co.uk - Crispin Sartwell The Austrian philosopher and 20th-century genius disabled others and inspired decades of needless self-destruction among his disciples In the preface …
Keith The State of Contemporary Metaphysicsdailynous.com - Justin Weinberg “I think metaphysics is what it’s always been—and it’s hard to say what that is!” That’s Ross Cameron, professor of philosophy at the University of …
KeithUncommon Wisdom from a Forgotten Genius: Olga Jacoby’s Extraordinary Letters on Love, Life, Death, Moral Courage, and SpiritualBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“Love, like strength and courage, is a strange thing; the more we give the more we find we have to give.” Half a century before Frida Kahlo made her impassioned case for atheism as a supreme form of freedom
KeithPhilosophy The neuroscience and philosophy of evilmedium.com - Figs In Winter How is it possible that human beings commit atrocities like the Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide? Or torture people like the Spanish Inquisition …
KeithChaos, Time, and the Origin of Everything: Stephen Fry on How Ancient Greek Mythology and Modern Science Meet to IlluminateBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria PopovaInside the “grand cosmic yawn” that gave us everything we’ve ever known (including the word “cosmos” itself). “Time is the substance I am made of,” Borges wrote in his sublime meditation on the most elemental
KeithIcon version of the Flipboard logo Einstein’s Philosophy of Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)stanford.edu Late in 1944, Albert Einstein received a letter from Robert Thornton, a young African-American philosopher of science who had just finished his Ph.D. …
Keith What Would Michel Foucault Think of Social Media, Fake News & Our Post Truth World?openculture.com - by Josh Jones During the late 70s, Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at the College de France in which he defined the concept of biopolitics, an idea …
KeithPhilosophy On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil GibranBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their
KeithIcon version of the Flipboard logo Physical requirements for models of consciousnesspitt.edu - Rodolfo Gambini Consciousness presents a series of characteristics that have been observed through- out the years: unity, continuity, richness and robustness are …
