Searching for the purpose of life |Babette Babich, Frank Tallis, Jonathan Webber, Sandra Laugier
The journey in search of the destination Does life have a purpose? Is that what gives life...
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Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the technology trap | Babette Babich
Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the technology trap with Babette Babich Babette Babich...
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The philosophy of fun | Myriam François, Freya India, James Tartaglia
The essential philosophy of fun Do we need to have fun or is it an unnecessary excess? Are we...
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Neoliberalism: A Soviet nightmare | Abby Innes
There is an old Soviet joke, ‘Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is its...
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The dark side of chasing rewards | Paul Bloom, Nancy Sherman, and Dan Ariely
Something for nothing Do rewards and incentives damage our humanity? In much of our personal...
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Rethinking the Enlightenment | Historian Aviva Chomsy
The spectre of the Enlightenment What the Enlightenment a net positive or a net negative? Or is...
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Was Karl Marx misunderstood? | Terry Eagleton on the forgotten ideals of Marxism
Why Marx was right Having fallen out of favour around the turn of the century, Marxism is now...
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The power and the pitfalls of narrative | Matthew Beaumont, Ruth Padel, and Theodore Dalrymple
Lost in stories Is life a story or a sequence of events? Our narratives enable us to make sense...
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Reflections on mental health today | Interview | Susie Orbach
The dark side of 'mental health' with Susie Orbach Why are psychotherapy, psychology,...
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The life and philosophy of Peter Singer | In conversation with Myriam François
Peter Singer is one of the world's leading philosophers, renowned for his challenging and often...
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Under capitalism, it can be hard to disentangle an idea of 'value' from that which the market...
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The crisis of the new | Stanley Fish, Claire Hynes, and Martin Puchner
Is genuine originality a realistic goal for artists? From fashion to fantasy, entertainment to...
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Sartre vs Baldwin | Joanna Kavenna, Jonathan Webber, and Marie-Elsa Bragg
We take it for granted that through language and communication we can learn about the experience...
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The philosophy of geopolitics SPECIAL | Donald Trump, Homer's Odyssey, and Korean Web Novels
What do Friedrich Nietzsche, the Korean War, and Homer's Odyssey have in common? the team...
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The philosophy of dehumanisation | David Livingstone Smith
The philosophy of dehumanisation with David Livingstone Smith In this exclusive interview,...
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Consciousness is quantum mechanical | Stuart Hameroff
Consciousness is one of the most fundamental aspects of our existence, but it remains barely...
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Defending panpsychism | Philosophers Philip Goff and Hilary Lawson
Metaphysics vs consciousness Panpsychism has recently become something of a household term in...
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Consciousness beyond the brain | Rupert Sheldrake
Consciousness beyond the brain | Rupert Sheldrake
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Are machines already conscious? | Yoshua Bengio, Sabine Hossenfelder, Nick Lane, and Hilary Lawson
The consciousness test Could an artificial intelligence be capable of genuine conscious...
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Longtermism SPECIAL: The next stage of effective altruism
Should we sacrifice the present for a better future? the team at the IAI for three articles...
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