Distinct biological genders appear increasingly unsupported by scientific evidence. But the idea is still deeply embedded in society, writes Gina Rippon. The social and the scientific can't be easily separated.
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And the next generation will be no different | Bernardo Kastrup on the nonsense of inherited plausibility. | Continue reading
Jean-Paul Sartre's political philosophy is falsely identified as 'existential Marxism', when in reality it aligns with anarchism. | Continue reading
Shinto beliefs could help modern society refocus on its connection to nature, instead of obsessively rejecting nature for the sake of technology.
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Space exploration and expansion is an inevitability. We need to act now to ensure voices beyond global superpowers are heard, writes Tony Miligan, and establish sustainable policies. | Continue reading
Dutch philosopher Bernardo Kastrup explains Arthur Schoenphauer's metaphysics of self, and why core subjectivity transcends bodily death. | Continue reading
Professor of Philosophy Jamie Lombardi unpacks Albert Camus's views on love, the absurd, and why loving is an act of rebellion. | Continue reading
How can we live a good life? Picking the right philosophy of life is a vital decision, write Massimo Pigliucci, Skye Cleary and Daniel A. Kaufman - whether your a Stoic, an Existentialist of an Aristotelian. | Continue reading
New York City College philosopher and author of How To Be A Stoic Massimo Pigliucci and Columbia University visiting professor and author of Existentialism and Romantic Love Skye Cleary take you through Camus' and the stoics' thoughts on what makes life worth living. | Continue reading
Bernardo Kastrup unpacks the materialist argument that phenomenal consciousness is purely quantitative with an investigation of its qualitative aspects. | Continue reading
A link between the German existentialist Martin Heidegger and Japanese mainstream animator and author of Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, Hayashi Miyazaki, seems unlikely. But they share a recurring theme - the relationship between humans and nature. | Continue reading
Eliminative materialist Michael Graziano explains the brain basis of consciousness and why our mind is nothing like we imagine. | Continue reading
Bernardo Kastrup challenges eliminativist and illusionist theories that consciousness does not exist, arguing that materialism is to blame. | Continue reading
Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder on why Physics is experiencing 40 years of stagnation because physicists are unwilling to adopt new methods. | Continue reading
Why we should be careful about both technological developments and our biases against them | Continue reading
Nonsense poetry by Edward Lear reveals that there is unhappiness in happiness, and irrationality in reason, argues Matthew Bevis. | Continue reading
Bence Nanay argues that our complex imagination and lack of knowledge of our future selves make us more irrational than other creatures | Continue reading
Jason Mackenzie Alexander argues morality is a form of social technology – it is context specific and it can go out-of-date | Continue reading
It’s misleading to think about boredom in ahistorical terms. Disregarding the longer genealogy, and conflating boredom with very different modes of human experience, obscures its connections to capitalism and to the industrial-technological remaking of everyday life in the modern … | Continue reading
Starting with Kant, western philosophers have erased non-western thinkers from history | Continue reading