Putin’s tyranny has deeper roots than his warped psychology
Putin’s grotesque take on the unimportance of the individual in Russian philosophy means he is willing to see many of…
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Morality after the Bomb
How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch transformed philosophy for a postwar world.
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Is reality a hallucination? The neuroscientist Anil Seth thinks so
After decades of research into the mysteries of consciousness, the British academic has reached a radical conclusion – by way…
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Why falsehoods on Twitter spread faster than truth
Since the platform is perfectly designed for what Heidegger called “idle talk”, it’s no surprise that untruths proliferate there.
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Living in an immaterial world
The metaverse promises infinite new realms just as tangible as the one we will leave behind.
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What Hitchcock’s Vertigo teaches us about love
The film’s twin love stories contrast two ways of understanding what tethers us to someone: personal qualities and shared history.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: a mind on fire
A century after its publication, the philosopher’s Tractatus remains as radical as ever.
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Steven Pinker and the problem with rationality
The popular psychology professor makes the case for reason. But the lure of dogma is hard to resist.
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The fall of the intellectual
Where have all the great thinkers gone?
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The ghost at the atheist feast: was Nietzsche right about religion?
John Gray reviews “The Age of Nothing” by Peter Watson and “Culture and the Death of God” by Terry Eagleton.
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