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Informed Consent and the Joe Rogan Experience

prindleinstitute.org

Submitted by ADefiniteDescription t3_xznsf6 on October 9, 2022 at 3:03 PM

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"[Moral] theories started out on the wrong foot, by treating morality and immorality as intrinsic to the actions themselves, instead of our responses to them." Philosopher Alex Rosenberg on whether moral disputes can be resolved

archive.nytimes.com

Submitted by [deleted] t3_xzpq9t on October 9, 2022 at 4:26 PM

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You are not obliged to vote, and maybe shouldn't. An argument from analogy.

wonderandaporia.substack.com

Submitted by SilasTheSavage t3_xxxhy7 on October 7, 2022 at 12:11 PM

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The afterlife is in our heads: consciousness and near-death experiences

nautil.us

Submitted by [deleted] t3_y1fd78 on October 11, 2022 at 5:44 PM

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Utopia”: meaning ‘no place’; from Greek: οὐ (not’) and τόπος (‘place’)

hokepos.org

Submitted by Sphaerocypraea t3_xtiajf on October 2, 2022 at 7:16 AM

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

iai.tv

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

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

iai.tv

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

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Empiricism — the philosophy of Locke, Berkeley and Hume that argued knowledge was derived only from sensory experience (against Descartes’s Rationalists) and provided the philosophical foundation for the scientific method

thelivingphilosophy.substack.com

Submitted by thelivingphilosophy t3_xvcjkn on October 4, 2022 at 11:25 AM

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Freedom is the Foundation of Morality (or why ought implies can)

substack.com

Submitted by contractualist t3_xvqkit on October 4, 2022 at 9:00 PM

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Reconsidering the Good Life. Feminist philosophers Kate Soper and Lynne Segal discuss the unsustainable obsession with economic growth and consider what it might look like if we all worked less.

bostonreview.net

Submitted by Maxwellsdemon17 t3_xx9tko on October 6, 2022 at 4:40 PM

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I’m not okay

Submitted by Competitive_Soup_207 t3_xwc24o on October 5, 2022 at 2:26 PM

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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.

iai.tv

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

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“The objective requires the subjective as a foil if it is to play the scientific role late nineteenth-century philosophers assigned to it, not to mention to become accessible through our perceptual apparatus in new kinds of mathematical and logical symbolism.”

jhiblog.org

Submitted by Maxwellsdemon17 t3_xsrx5g on October 1, 2022 at 10:26 AM

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J.J. Gibson on the meaning of the world

ralphammer.com

Submitted by ralphammer t3_xsn2e1 on October 1, 2022 at 5:27 AM

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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.

iai.tv

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

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Why I am Not a Communist, by Betrand Russell

rjgeib.com

Submitted by [deleted] t3_xtmtkx on October 2, 2022 at 11:49 AM

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Submitted by JackDMcLovin t3_xtbbi0 on October 2, 2022 at 12:59 AM

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