- aeon.co Does chaos theory square classical physics with human agency? | Aeon Essays
Can a butterfly’s wings trigger a distant hurricane? The answer depends on the perspective you take: physics or human agency
- aeon.co Philosophical theories are like good stories: Margaret Macdonald | Aeon Essays
For Margaret Macdonald, philosophical theories are akin to stories, meant to enlarge certain aspects of human life
- www.nature.com The bioethics of skeletal anatomy collections from India - Nature Communications
Millions of skeletal remains from South Asia were exported in red markets (the underground economy of human tissues/organs) to educational institutions globally for over a century. It is time to recognize the personhood of the people who were systematically made into anatomical objects and acknowled...
- aeon.co Who are the leaders in our heads – and how did they get there? | Aeon Essays
How the biblical King David and Machiavelli’s Prince can help us understand the dominant view of leaders as individualists
- bigthink.com Turing and Wittgenstein: An entanglement of math and philosophy
In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test.
- aeon.co The moral imperative to learn from diverse phenomenal experiences | Aeon Essays
New research is uncovering the hidden differences in how people experience the world. The consequences are unsettling
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What if Amish people immigrate into Europe. Would it help Europeans escape the forced “digital transformation”?
Belgian municipalities have started forcing people to use web browsers to interact with public services. That’s right. It’s no longer possible to reach a variety of public services in an analog way in some Belgian regions. And for people willing to wrestle with the information systems being imposed, it also means cash payment is now impossible when a service requires a fee. The government is steam-rolling over elderly people who struggle with how to use technology along with those who only embrace inclusive privacy-respecting technology. These groups are apparently small enough to be marginalized without government reps worrying about lost votes.
Hypothetically, what would happen if some Amish villages existed in Belgium? I ask because what’s being imposed would strongly go against their religion. Would the right to practice religion carry enough weight to compel the government to maintain an offline option even if it’s a small group of Amish? If yes, would that option likely be extended to everyone, or exclusive to the Amish?
- www.noemamag.com The Modern Wisdom Of Daoist History | NOEMA
A Daoist perspective of history imparts a sense of humility on social actors as their power rises and encourages them to avoid the hubris of thinking that historical transformations are driven by some moral rationale.
- aeon.co More than argument, logic is the very structure of reality | Aeon Essays
Some have thought that logic will one day be completed and all its problems solved. Now we know it is an endless task
- arstechnica.com Determinism vs. free will: A scientific showdown
Two books delve into what science may tell us about whether we have free will.
- www.curiouspeoples.com Socrates: The Father of Western Philosophy
For more than two millennia, the name Socrates has been synonymous with philosophy, intellectual inquiry, and the pursuit of truth.
- blog.southparkcommons.com What is -1 to 0? A Philosophy of Ideation.
Defining a crucial stage of company-building—and why you should take it seriously.
- www.theneweuropean.co.uk Everyday philosophy: Happy birthday, Albert Camus
The French philosopher and writer, born on November 7, 1913, was a publisher’s dream
- aeon.co Since when is philosophy a branch of the self-help industry? | Aeon Essays
The discipline today finds itself precariously balanced between incomprehensible specialisation and cheap self-help
