5 Reasons That Cartoons Are the 21st Century’s Great Metaphysical Playground
Could we be living in a simulation created by an advanced civilization? Philosopher Nick Bostrom argues that…
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Teaching Plato in Palestine: Can Philosophy Save Us From Our Differences?
Imagine, for a moment, if, during the tense final hours of the recently concluded negotiations…
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You will know them by their noxious emissions.
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Colin McGinn: Not the Only Masturbating Philosopher
While researching the history of philosophical arguments about the existence of God, it gradually became clear that my undertaking was in fact a study of masculinity, so shot through were these arguments with gendered assumptions and ideals. And, as a study of masculinity, it was also a study of patriarchy.
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An Evangelical Intellectual Takes On Same-Sex Marriage, Grasps at Straw Men
Though Craig is correct that his argument is “simple,” he is wrong to believe that simplicity makes it good. Indeed, the suggestion that terms and concepts are immune to redefinition is simply… false. It demands an unflattering comparison to Rick Santorum, who once stumped around the nation declaring that a “napkin is a napkin.”
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Francis the Jesuit: a Philosopher-Pope?
Amid the clamor to figure out who Pope Francis might be, observers never failed to mention that he is the first Jesuit pope. But what does that really tell us and, more importantly, as his decisions begin to come down the pipeline, what is most important to know about his Jesuit worldview?
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Simon Critchley, Atheist Religious Thinker on Utopia & the Fiction of Faith
Philosopher Simon Critchley on evangelical atheists, the ‘supreme fiction’ in politics or love, and why the debate over whether you believe in a god is massively irrelevant.
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“Profound Delight in Being”: Remembering John Hick
John Hick, a celebrated theologian and philosopher who died earlier this year, was drawn to issues that transcend any particular tradition—the question of evil, the meaning of suffering, life after death, and religious diversity.
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Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized
Jeffrey Stout’s Blessed Are the Organized is arguably even more relevant now than when it was published last year. Even then, the United States economy had collapsed in on itself. Barack Obama’s role had fully shifted from community organizer to Beltway compromiser, and the grassroots was being overgrown by Tea Party “astroturf.” But now—as politicians wrestle our economy even lower to the ground at the behest of organized elites, and the voice of the majority seems to grow ever fainter in their ears—the kind of real grassroots organizing Stout writes about seems all the more to be what we need.
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Were You Born Selfish?: An Interview with Frans de Waal
Both the good and bad in our species come from our primate background, says primatologist Frans de Waal, author of The Age of Empathy.
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