- True moral freedom means acting out of duty, courtesy, or self-sacrifice, rather than being swayed by passions or self-interest, and it is within Nabokov's characters, often dismissed as morally repugnant, that this Kantian concept finds its most unexpected expression. https://iai.tv/articles/nabokov-and-why-the-moral-act-is-the-free-act-auid-2760?_auid=2020 40 comments philosophy
- "The philosophical distinction between logic and creativity is a mistake. Even practices that seem logical to their core - like the scientific method - are inherently artistic, requiring intuition and judgments which are never fully free of subjectivity." https://iai.tv/articles/the-divide-between-art-and-science-is-a-mistake-auid-2660?_auid=2020&ts=1699257831%3Futm_source%3Dreddit 120 comments philosophy
- Paradoxically, what makes you unique is your relation to other people. The more robustly we try to identify who we are, the more we become embedded in all others. https://iai.tv/video/the-different-places-of-the-self&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 125 comments philosophy
- The political left and right both use Nietzsche’s ideas to support their own political agendas. Yet neither grasp the full extent of his vision or political thought, and wouldn't like it if they did. https://iai.tv/articles/the-left-and-right-both-get-nietzsche-wrong-matt-mcmanus-auid-2414&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 388 comments philosophy
- This researcher has some interesting claims about the Big Bang after the recent JWST images. What are your thoughts? https://iai.tv/articles/the-big-bang-didnt-happen-auid-2215 5 comments space
- An ex-KGB agent on Putin's war against Ukraine | Jack Barsky: “He is very calculated and focussed in his efforts to create a mythology about himself that will survive in the coming centuries, right next to Peter the Great. That’s what’s driving the guy.” https://iai.tv/articles/jack-basrksy-putin-and-the-western-intelligence-failure-auid-2212&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 212 comments geopolitics
- We create our worlds by the language we use. It’s only through our publicly shared versions of reality that social coordination is possible. https://iai.tv/articles/language-vs-reality-auid-2171&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 73 comments philosophy
- “The rise of the post-human era and the end of nature are the two sides of the same process.” The greater our ability to transform nature, the more humanity is reduced to another mere object subject to manipulation | Slavoj Žižek https://iai.tv/articles/freedom-from-nature-the-ultimate-enslavement-auid-2168&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 97 comments philosophy
- After Metaphysics | Giving up the search for truth and seeing their work as unconstrained by theories of the world would give philosophers more agency, and more accountability. https://iai.tv/articles/auid-2157-return-of-metaphysics-rorty-pragmatism-poetry-auid-2157&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 2 comments philosophy
- Google’s AI isn’t sentient. Not even slightly | Clever language models, anthropomorphizing, and the gullibility gap https://iai.tv/articles/googles-ai-is-not-sentient-not-even-slightly-auid-2153&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 267 comments philosophy
- The US can't undo the Russia-China alliance in the war against Ukraine. Biden thinks he can pressure China to break with Putin by threatening with economic sanctions. But China's alliance with Russia runs deep and is here to stay. The US ignores that at its peril. https://iai.tv/articles/the-us-cant-break-the-china-russia-alliance-auid-2088&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 269 comments geopolitics
- In children’s play the philosophical boundaries between rational thought, emotional experience, and our connection with the world are dissolved | Maria Balaska (UH) https://iai.tv/video/maria-balaska-psychoanalysis-philosophy-and-the-wisdom-of-youth&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 37 comments philosophy
- Max Planck and the consciousness puzzle | Quantum mechanics suggests we need to radically reframe our thinking about consciousness. https://iai.tv/video/planck-and-the-consciousness-puzzle&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 571 comments philosophy
- Real life is rarely as simple as moral codes suggest. In practice we must often violate moral principles in order to avoid the most morally unacceptable outcome. https://iai.tv/video/being-bad-to-do-good-draconian-measures-moral-norm&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 294 comments philosophy
- “Scientific progress is thwarted by the ownership of knowledge.” How Karl Popper’s philosophy of science can overcome clinical corruption. https://iai.tv/articles/the-total-corruption-of-evidence-based-medicine-auid-1686&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 192 comments philosophy
- Evidence, facts and truth itself are outcomes of social and political processes. This does not mean facts are invented, or that nothing is true. https://iai.tv/articles/facts-politics-and-science-auid-1614&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 256 comments philosophy
- Philosophers vs. Physicists on the Direction of Time | Why our experience is at odds with the science https://iai.tv/video/the-illusion-of-now-is-time-static-or-fluid?access=all?utmsource=reddit 35 comments philosophy
- Saul Kripke: because humans are finite beings with a limited capacity for knowledge, it's natural that we sometimes turn to dogmatism rather than sketpicism, despite our best intentions - it's deciding which attitude to take in each situation that matters. https://iai.tv/video/belief-and-dogma-saul-kripke6 78 comments philosophy
- Slavoj Zizek on the living dead: Symbolic acts, such as funeral rites, allow the dead to pass from reality into the cultural memory. From Hamlet to Halloween, the dead arise when those rites are disrupted, preventing them from finding a place in the text of tradition. https://iai.tv/articles/return-of-the-living-dead-slavoj-zizek-auid-1261 15 comments philosophy
- To solve a concept, we must move beyond the level of consciousness that created it. And from Ancient Greece to the modern day, thinkers have used mind-expanding substances to transcend the limits of the everyday and unlock their intellectual potential https://iai.tv/video/the-science-of-psychedelics?access=all?utmsource=reddit 3 comments philosophy
- Mark Rowlands on animal morality: moral agency is as much about instinct as it is about thought and reflection, so while animals cannot reason, they do have the emotions required to act morally https://iai.tv/iai-academy/courses/info?course=minds-morality-and-agency&utmsource=reddit 128 comments philosophy
- Science has never and will never achieve a point of view 'from nowhere'; Massimo Pigliucci debunks science's myth of universal objectivity https://iai.tv/articles/the-big-myths-in-science-auid-1259?utmsource=reddit 63 comments philosophy
- Freedom of speech comes with no ifs or buts - the problems it causes in the digital age are not insurmountable. https://iai.tv/video/do-we-need-internet-censorship-cyberbullying-trolling-free-speech-surveillance?access=all?utmsource=reddit 56 comments philosophy
- On this day (June 6) in 1909, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin was born. Simon Glendinning uses Berlin's concepts to inform the argument that European rivalries are rooted in philosophical rivalries https://iai.tv/articles/europes-philosophical-rivalry-auid-353 25 comments philosophy
- We must recover the best Enlightenment ideals of skepticism & modesty, understanding as Hume did that reason is a powerful tool only when we're aware of its limitations https://iai.tv/video/the-new-enlightenment?access=all 107 comments philosophy
- Moral relativism examines actions whereas value pluralism can go deeper into motivations; comparing different cultural concepts of goodness is a good way to understand morality globally https://iai.tv/video/good-and-evil-around-the-globe?access=all 11 comments philosophy
- David Hume explains why we cannot act on reason alone; passion & sympathy must play a part, and violent passions are often the strongest https://iai.tv/articles/how-would-david-hume-explain-our-political-divisions-auid-1233 137 comments philosophy
- Following the withdrawal of ISIS, Rojava in Northern Syria becomes a beacon for direct democracy, gender equality and sustainable environmental policy. https://iai.tv/video/revolution-in-rojava?access=all 5 comments worldnews
- Political philosopher Christian List argues that 'the will of the people' is an incoherent, impossible notion. See his and nine other thinkers' takes on Brexit https://iai.tv/articles/what-is-the-most-democratic-way-to-solve-the-brexit-crisis-auid-1225 28 comments philosophy
- In the West, we're obsessed with productivity. But according to Daoism, being useless can be life-affirming https://iai.tv/articles/uselessness-as-life-affirmation-a-daoist-reflection-auid-1217 458 comments philosophy
- What makes humans unique is not reducible to our brains or biology, but how we make sense of experience | Raymond Tallis https://iai.tv/video/the-mind-and-the-world?access=all? 547 comments philosophy
- A free course with Andy Clark on 'predictive brain theory' - touted as a unifying theory for cognitive sciences https://iai.tv/iai-academy/courses/info?course=predicting-ourselves 9 comments philosophy
- Steven Rose on why neuroscience often falls foul of the mereological fallacy - that consciousness can be credited to a single part of your body and not the whole https://iai.tv/video/neuroscience-vs-philosophy?access=all?utmsource=reddit3 178 comments philosophy
- Logic doesn't tell you what is true, argues Simon Blackburn, but it can expose nonsense and dodgy thinking https://iai.tv/video/the-limits-of-logic?access=all?utmsource=reddit 647 comments philosophy
- Simon and Blackburn and Mary Midgley in debate with a neuroscientist on whether 'the self' is an illusion https://iai.tv/video/in-search-of-the-self?access=all?utmsource=reddit 176 comments philosophy
- Actual Consciousness: why our minds aren't confined to our brains https://iai.tv/video/actual-consciousness 60 comments philosophy
- Time appears to be the ultimate form of progress, but some physicists claim this is an illusion. Do we need alternative accounts of time? - interesting debate featuring Jim Al-Khalili, Craig Bourne, Angie Hobbs, Raymond Tallis. http://iai.tv/video/time-s-arrow 266 comments philosophy
- We value freedom above almost anything. But neuroscientists claim they can predict decisions seven seconds before we act. Might free will be an illusion? http://iai.tv/video/the-chemistry-of-freedom 695 comments philosophy
- John Searle in debate about the importance of the linguistic turn http://iai.tv/video/the-limits-of-my-world 6 comments philosophy
- Peter Singer & Mary Midgley consider the future of animal rights & bioethics http://iai.tv/video/on-humans-and-animals 8 comments philosophy