philosophy
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Does anyone really need any expertise to become a philosopher?
David Egan, Aeon
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Physicist Richard Feynman may have overstated the ‘beauty’ of science
Massimo Pigliucci, Aeon
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Meet three female philosophers you have probably never heard of in the field of big consciousness
Emily Thomas, The Conversation
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‘Does not tyranny spring from democracy?’ How Plato’s 380 BC philosophy is truer than ever today
Lenin Cavalcanti Guerra, The Conversation
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A Darwinian existentialist explains the meaning of life and how he found it
Michael Ruse, Aeon
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Why Hannah Arendt’s famous ‘banality of evil’ thesis stands the risk of being proved banal itself
Thomas White, Aeon
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This book argues that democracy is inherently flawed and advocates a return to its predecessor
Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi
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How are writing and mathematics related? This biography of the Weill siblings explores the links
Susan Haris
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To know thyself, speak in the third person – it could make you wiser
David Robson, Aeon
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How national stereotypes killed the European dream of 19th century philosophers
Daniel Whistler, The Conversation
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What different theories of philosophy tell us about Gandhi’s experiments with truth
Shaj Mohan Divya Dwivedi
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How to party like existentialist philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Skye C Cleary, Aeon
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Why Irad Kimhi is the contemporary philosopher we must read in the age of fake news
Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi
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Why philosophical writing should read like a letter written to yourself
John Lysaker, Aeon
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I set up a booth on a New York street corner with two other philosophers. Here’s what people asked
Lee McIntyre, The Conversation
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At once tiny and huge: How philosophers describe the feeling we call ‘sublime’
Sandra Shapshay, Aeon
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’Tis the season to be busy: The modern obsession with busyness can find a solution in history
Clare Holdsworth, The Conversation
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Why intellectuals need to stop reminiscing about the Enlightenment as a golden ‘age of reason’
Henry Martyn Lloyd, Aeon
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How Jewish reformers took the ‘materialism’ stereotype and turned it into an ethos of hope
Eliyahu Stern, Aeon
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Is it okay to admire past thinkers even if they held racist or sexist views?
Julian Baggini, Aeon