A theory of creepiness
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Qualia
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For Leo Strauss, public life was muddied by opinion and persecution, so philosophers should shield their work from view
4 votes -
Nothingness (Why is there something rather than nothing?)
7 votes -
Holes
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Bertrand Russell’s ‘scientific’ philosophy was a bulwark against nationalism
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Falling for Mississippi
4 votes -
It turns out
7 votes -
Privacy is power
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I, Pencil
3 votes -
Zombies (philosophy)
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Philosophy’s systemic racism
5 votes -
Confessions of a former bastard cop
10 votes -
How compulsory unionization makes us more free
9 votes -
Ashoka's moral empire
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Does philosophy reside in the unsayable or should it care only for precision? Carnap, Heidegger and the great divergence
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What happens when Hobbesian logic takes over discourse about protest – and why we should resist it
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How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral | A process of moral outbidding is corroding small communities from within
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The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America
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Nihilism
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I and thou: A bigfoot encounter
8 votes -
Modesty means more, not less
9 votes -
Politics and the English language
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English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.
12 votes -
The play deficit
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The dreams of an inventor in 1420
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On this day in 1791, the only successful slave uprising in history began
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Tainted by association: Would you carve a roast with a knife that had been used in a murder? Why not? And what does this tell us about ethics?
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Marxism and Buddhism: Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy?
12 votes -
The Jewish case for open borders
11 votes -
The first socialist
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Muslims of early America: Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
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A revolution in time - Once local and irregular, time-keeping became universal and linear in 311 BCE
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The Neanderthal renaissance
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Xenophon: The ancient Greek rebel leader who saw Socrates solo-dancing
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Bonfire of the humanities: The role of history in a society afflicted by short-termism
13 votes -
American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund
10 votes -
The say of the land. Is language produced by the mind? Romantic theory has it otherwise: words emerge from the cosmos, expressing its soul
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The big squeeze: Sicily’s mafia sprang from the growing global market for lemons – a tale with sour parallels for consumers today
8 votes -
Theses on libertarian municipalism
6 votes -
What is the Muslim world?
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Speaking on behalf of … In the tapestry of diverse social groups, the loudest and most extreme get heard. To whom should we actually listen?
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Voltaire and the Buddha: How the French Enlightenment thinker prefigured an approach now familiar in the West
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"Fuck Neoliberalism" - An academic paper by Simon Springer
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What can Aristotle teach us about happiness?
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Black Achilles - The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black – or as something else altogether?
5 votes