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- When Pirates Studied Euclid https://aeon.co/essays/how-european-sailors-learned-celestial-navigation 13 comments
- The Illusion of Competence https://aeon.co/ideas/what-know-it-alls-dont-know-or-the-illusion-of-competence 20 comments
- Can we make consciousness into an engineering problem? https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-make-consciousness-into-an-engineering-problem 24 comments
- Could we reboot a modern civilization without fossil fuels? http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/could-we-reboot-civilisation-without-fossil-fuels/ 178 comments
- Does everyone who suffers trauma have PTSD? http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/does-everyone-who-suffers-trauma-have-ptsd/ 32 comments
- Kids don’t just say 'the darndest things'. Playful and probing, they can be closer to the grain of life’s deepest questions https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-do-philosophy-for-and-with-children 23 comments philosophy
- The discontent of Russia. Lenin envisioned Soviet unity. Stalin called Russia ‘first among equals’. Yet Russian nationalism never went away https://aeon.co/essays/the-soviet-union-never-really-solved-russian-nationalism 4 comments europe
- Stepping into the same river twice: Wittgensten vs. Heraclitus https://aeon.co/ideas/can-you-step-in-the-same-river-twice-wittgenstein-v-heraclitus 47 comments philosophy
- It's time for a robust philosophical defence of truth in science https://aeon.co/essays/its-time-for-a-robust-philosophical-defence-of-truth-in-science 87 comments philosophy
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- Children learn best when their bodies are engaged in the living world. We must resist the ideology of screen-based learning https://aeon.co/essays/children-learn-best-when-engaged-in-the-living-world-not-on-screens 451 comments philosophy
- The Subjective Turn | Hegel and the history of human nature https://aeon.co/essays/hegel-and-the-history-of-human-nature 19 comments philosophy
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- Philosophy should care about the filthy, excessive and unclean – Thomas White | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/philosophy-should-care-about-the-filthy-excessive-and-unclean 5 comments philosophy
- Against cheerfulness https://aeon.co/essays/cheerfulness-cannot-be-compulsory-whatever-the-t-shirts-say?fbclid=iwar0uld56xfbcggsl4cjbmotrtftx_ts7-fbqcnagcgzljsqntzcvmyh14ra 32 comments philosophy
- Can there ever be another novel like The Satanic Verses? https://aeon.co/essays/can-there-ever-be-another-novel-like-the-satanic-verses 17 comments books
- The language of sexual negotiation must go far beyond ‘consent’ and ‘refusal’ if we are to foster ethical, autonomous sex https://aeon.co/essays/consent-and-refusal-are-not-the-only-talking-points-in-sex 1500 comments philosophy
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- How we can teach morality even when we disagree about it https://aeon.co/ideas/if-we-disagree-about-morality-how-can-we-teach-it 13 comments philosophy
- Why cosmology without philosophy is like a ship without a hull https://aeon.co/ideas/why-cosmology-without-philosophy-is-like-a-ship-without-a-hull?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=atom-feed 51 comments philosophy
- How to tell a bad person from a person who did a bad thing – Robert J Hartman | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-tell-a-bad-person-from-a-person-who-did-a-bad-thing 15 comments philosophy
- Could machines have become self-aware without our knowing it? https://aeon.co/essays/could-machines-have-become-self-aware-without-our-knowing-it?utm_source=aeon+newsletter&utm_campaign=5668bbd941-email_campaign_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-5668bbd941-68626497 13 comments technology
- The ethics of making robots "feel" pain https://aeon.co/videos/pain-leads-to-empathy-and-self-preservation-should-we-make-robots-feel-it 8 comments philosophy
- The human world is not more fragile now: it always has been https://aeon.co/amp/essays/the-human-world-is-not-more-fragile-now-it-always-has-been 7 comments philosophy
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- How playing Wittgensteinian language-games can set us free https://aeon.co/ideas/how-playing-wittgensteinian-language-games-can-set-us-free 9 comments linguistics
- The string theory wars show us how science needs philosophy – Massimo Pigliucci | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-string-theory-wars-show-us-how-science-needs-philosophy?utm_source=aeon+newsletter&utm_campaign=eba5a1d6e4-daily_newsletter_10_august_20168_10_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-eba5a1d6e4-69120353 13 comments philosophy
- The cold fusion horizon https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-scientists-dismiss-the-possibility-of-cold-fusion 3 comments italy
- Brilliant Impersonators - "We prize originality, yet humans are natural-born copycats and only good imitators survive. Is it time to celebrate the rip-off?" http://aeon.co/magazine/science/imitation-is-what-makes-us-human-and-creativ/ 3 comments productivity
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- How you attach to people may explain a lot about your inner life | Psychology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/10/psychotherapy-childhood-mental-health 201 comments
- A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you | Princeton University Press https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you 135 comments
- A Science Journal Funded by Peter Thiel Is Running Articles Dismissing Climate Change and Evolution – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/01/a-science-journal-funded-by-peter-thiel-is-running-articles-dismissing-climate-change-and-evolution/ 82 comments
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- 400+ Free Online Philosophy Resources Organised by Topic - The Daily Idea http://thedailyidea.org/resources/ 35 comments
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- Tiny Suns Are Transforming the Search for Extraterrestrial Life - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/dwarf-planetary-systems-will-transform-the-hunt-for-alien-life/525057/ 5 comments
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- What Are the Ethical Consequences of Immortality Technology? https://singularityhub.com/2017/08/09/what-are-the-ethical-consequences-of-immortality-technology/ 3 comments
- Junk Science or the Real Thing? 'Inference' Publishes Both. https://undark.org/article/junk-science-or-real-thing-inference/ 3 comments
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- When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions – Sinapticas https://sinapticas.com/2020/08/07/when-science-hits-a-limit-learn-to-ask-different-questions/ 1 comment
- The brain-heart dialogue shows how racism hijacks perception – Sinapticas https://sinapticas.com/2019/04/30/the-brain-heart-dialogue-shows-how-racism-hijacks-perception/ 1 comment