A throwback to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's skepticism towards art's contribution to morals

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Modern neuroscience is reshaping how we understand free will, meaning, and the self by revealing them as emergent features of the brain.

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Russia has failed to achieve its core aim — the destruction of the Ukrainian nation

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Karl Popper formulated what is now known as the paradox of toleration, where unlimited tolerance can lead to the destruction of tolerance itself. I assess Poppe

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Podcast Episode · History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps · 02/02/2025 · 37m

There has been considerable optimistic speculation on how well ChatGPT-4 would perform in a Turing Test. However, no minimally serious implementation of the test has been reported to have been carried...