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Schopenhauer and the insatiable will to live | To reduce suffering and forge a better world we must resist desire and our metaphysical individualism.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_y3p2eo on October 14, 2022 at 9:23 AM in philosophy

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“Scientific progress is thwarted by the ownership of knowledge.” How Karl Popper’s philosophy of science can overcome clinical corruption.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_xxz7dd on October 7, 2022 at 1:29 PM in philosophy

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Bruno Latour posed a major challenge to modern philosophy’s key assumption - a distinction between the human subject and the world. Philosophy as a field is yet to properly understand the importance of his contribution | Graham Harman.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_y21wjt on October 12, 2022 at 11:54 AM in philosophy

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The benefits of doing nothing | An overactive 'life drive' endlessly seeks expansion, inevitably leads to burnout, and drains us of the energy needed to truly progress. Finding the time to do nothing is essential to reassessing who we are and who we want to be.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_y6czml on October 17, 2022 at 2:42 PM in philosophy

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The phenomenology of dementia | As memory slips away, it can take with it language, knowledge and even selfhood. But something beautiful can still remain – the ability to live in a simplified present.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_y7zjbw on October 19, 2022 at 10:55 AM in philosophy

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What we don't owe the future | Longtermism is a philosophy of grandiose ambition but short on useful insights. Our moral obligation is to improve the society we live in, not the ones to come.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_y9rs34 on October 21, 2022 at 11:54 AM in philosophy

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Logical positivism does not dispense with metaphysics, as it aimed to. It merely proposes a different kind of metaphysics, in which natural sciences take the privileged position once occupied by rationalist metaphysics.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_ydw305 on October 26, 2022 at 11:48 AM in philosophy

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At our core, most of us are not as good as we think we are - we are a mix of ethically good and bad traits. But can close this ‘character gap’ between who we are and who we think we should be.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_xugyke on October 3, 2022 at 11:35 AM in philosophy

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Modern western philosophy is founded on the search for certainty, but to be certain is to call and end to enquiry, as Eric Fromme suggested. The world is richer when we’re open to alternative ways of seeing the world in all cases.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_xw91u3 on October 5, 2022 at 12:15 PM in philosophy

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The search for universal meaning in an absurd world is pointless. Camus argues meaning must be forged from personal passions.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_y0bukv on October 10, 2022 at 11:02 AM in philosophy

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“It is the unconscious cognitive dissonance at the heart of explicit racism which prevents explicit racists from seeing the immoral nature of their racist actions.” – Berit Brogaard & Dimitria Gatzia on belief, hypocrisy, and cognitive dissonance.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_ycaiyf on October 24, 2022 at 12:55 PM in philosophy

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Stupidity is part of human nature. We must ditch the myth of perfect rationality as an attainable, or even desirable, goal | Bence Nanay

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_yibist on October 31, 2022 at 1:03 PM in philosophy

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Spacetime is not fundamental | Donald Hoffman

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Submitted by whoamisri t3_yewl06 on October 27, 2022 at 4:37 PM in space

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The big data delusion – the more data we have, the harder it is to find meaningful patterns in the world.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_yopbtt on November 7, 2022 at 2:55 PM in philosophy

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Engaging with philosophy gives you a toolkit that can help you lead a better and more meaningful life.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_ysbe5x on November 11, 2022 at 2:02 PM in philosophy

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For world philosophy day 13 thinkers share the philosophical questions that will define this century | Including Noam Chomsky on destruction, Naomi Oreskes on climate crisis and Carissa Veliz on innovation

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_yygarn on November 18, 2022 at 9:53 AM in philosophy

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The truth about conspiracy theories - We must be open and critical towards all theories. Dismissing putative conspiracy theories while failing to properly interrogate pseudoscience dangerous and irrational.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_z0yxqm on November 21, 2022 at 1:24 PM in philosophy

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How effective altruism lost the plot | Nobel principles of charity and generosity have developed into absurd fantasies of a post-human world in which the transformative power for technology controls everything

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_yk5rfa on November 2, 2022 at 1:48 PM in philosophy

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The strict moralisation of certain ideas in universities is preventing intellectual growth | Tommy Curry, Aaron Bastani and Kathleen Stock discuss the dangers of censoring academia

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_ylwiij on November 4, 2022 at 11:30 AM in philosophy

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Modernity is dominated by loneliness, anxiety, and precarity. To live happily, we should learn from pre-modern thinkers like Plato and Al-Farabi and rationally prioritise our life goals – placing the quest for knowledge above the quest for influence.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_yqjq1e on November 9, 2022 at 1:57 PM in philosophy

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Postmodernism’s insights have long grown stale. Most theories which aim to succeed it simply repeat the same mistakes. Metamodernism, by contrast, consolidates the positive ground postmodernism achieved without succumbing to its pitfalls

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_yuy1os on November 14, 2022 at 12:34 PM in philosophy

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Reality is not what it seems | the world exists objectively, but it is experiential in essence

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_z2mt2f on November 23, 2022 at 11:33 AM in philosophy

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Reality is everywhere and everything, but it is also unknowable, unattainable and evasive. We have replaced God with reality, argues Hilary Lawson.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_z4as84 on November 25, 2022 at 11:08 AM in philosophy

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To correctly diagnose the source of political conflict, we must learn to detect values creeping into factual claims.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_z6ve6n on November 28, 2022 at 12:33 PM in philosophy

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If we don’t heed Nietzsche’s warning and find the courage to abandon religion, society risks the imperilled and uncertain future painted in sci-fi epic Dune | Kevin S. Decker

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_z8sc6y on November 30, 2022 at 2:05 PM in philosophy

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Dark matter may be information itself

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Submitted by newsphilosophy t3_yxpgwk on November 17, 2022 at 12:51 PM in space

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We can't know if the universe had a beginning | George Ellis

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Submitted by whoamisri t3_ym5atk on November 4, 2022 at 5:42 PM in space

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Selflessness and altruistic deeds are often signs of weakness or a lack of belief in one’s self and one’s own goals | Guy Elgat explores Nietzsche’s critique of selflessness

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_zanf5k on December 2, 2022 at 2:16 PM in philosophy

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The world and other minds | Idealism leads to solipsism. Coherentism, rather than foundationalism, has better chance of reconciling solipsism with the apparent existence of other minds.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_zf2p8k on December 7, 2022 at 2:39 PM in philosophy

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The good/ binary in morality is misguided and can be dangerous | Tommy Curry, Massimo Pigliucci, Joanna Kavenna

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_zngt2a on December 16, 2022 at 3:08 PM in philosophy

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Our stated political beliefs are irrational when taken as a package – the don’t appear to form coherent wholes. But we should be skeptical about whether these irrational political beliefs are really beliefs

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_zppq3d on December 19, 2022 at 12:02 PM in philosophy

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To gift of not to gift, a philosopher's dilemma | Attentiveness, the kind that cuts through the indiscriminate busyness that besets modern life, is the greatest and hardest gift to give (Skye Cleary, John Kaag

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_ztdjpm on December 23, 2022 at 11:58 AM in philosophy

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Life is a game we play without ever knowing the rules: Camus, absurdist fiction, and the paradoxes of existence.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_zx7eqn on December 28, 2022 at 11:35 AM in philosophy

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We have all the resources we need to solve the world's greatest problems, so long as we can rise above our tribal instincts.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_zz2ic5 on December 30, 2022 at 2:58 PM in philosophy

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The deterministic laws of physics that govern the universe don’t mean we don’t have choices and responsibilities. Our free will remains at the heart of our sense of self.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_zd99dc on December 5, 2022 at 3:07 PM in philosophy

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Morality is neither objective nor subjective. We need a more nuanced understanding of right and wrong if we want to build a useful moral framework | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna and Simon Blackburn

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_zgu3d0 on December 9, 2022 at 10:54 AM in philosophy

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As it's possible for vivid experiences of consciousness to exist undetected from the outside, our intuitions about what organisms possess consciousness may be mistaken | Annaka Harris

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_zjx9ez on December 12, 2022 at 12:10 PM in philosophy

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Human beings are more prone to do evil than to do good, not because of their psychological makeup but because, by its nature, evil is easier than goodness.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_zrk35t on December 21, 2022 at 12:36 PM in philosophy

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Our ability to resist temptation depends on how fragmented one's mind is | On the inconsistencies in one’s mental setup

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_104s5ss on January 6, 2023 at 11:44 AM in philosophy

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Violence and force: “Camus and Sartre are paradoxically inseparable because they are opposites in this most central and binding debate on racism and all kinds of social oppression.”

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_107dz1u on January 9, 2023 at 1:07 PM in philosophy

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Philosophy has never been the detached pursuit of truth. It’s always been deeply invested in its own cultural perspective.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_1092f6a on January 11, 2023 at 11:24 AM in philosophy

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Life can’t be reduced to a rulebook. But committing to certain moral principles can help us navigate life better.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_10atjkz on January 13, 2023 at 12:38 PM in philosophy

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Steven Pinker on the power of irrationality | Choosing ignorance, incapacity, or irrationality can at times be the most rational thing to do.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_10f5k93 on January 18, 2023 at 11:54 AM in philosophy

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"Understand the philosophy of a place and you'll understand its culture" | Julian Baggini explores how to approach non-Western philosophies, without exoticizing, essentalising or domesticating

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_10jb9jk on January 23, 2023 at 12:25 PM in philosophy

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Cosmic nihilism, existential joy | Human consciousness, and our need for meaning in a meaningless world, is the source of both tragic pessimism and the intense joy we take in life.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_10mkk9a on January 27, 2023 at 1:16 PM in philosophy

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Andrew Tate, Nietzsche , and The Matrix | The appearance-reality distinction that underlies Tate’s references to the Matrix stretches all the way back to Plato. Nietzsche warned the belief reality is accessible only to the few is a dangerous life-denying ideology.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_10p4mv6 on January 30, 2023 at 2:51 PM in philosophy

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Societies choose to make evil look sexy in order to distract us from real evil – called ‘banal’ by Hannah Arendt. Real evil is often done quietly and without intention, like climate change.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_101csf0 on January 2, 2023 at 1:36 PM in philosophy

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Daft Punk and Metaphysics | We must avoid the allure of becoming ‘harder, better, faster, stronger’ and resist the dominance of materialism as the operative philosophy of our time.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_1031fj3 on January 4, 2023 at 11:34 AM in philosophy

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Evolution by natural selection tells us the probability we’ve developed to see the world ‘as it really is’ is zero. This doesn’t cast doubt on reality, but calls for a reorientation in how we understand our engagement with it.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_10dchar on January 16, 2023 at 11:42 AM in philosophy

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We are technological beings living in a technological world. A technology free future makes no sense.

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Submitted by IAI_Admin t3_10gw4kc on January 20, 2023 at 12:48 PM in philosophy

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