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Instrumentalisation is making everything a means to an end | Aeon Essays

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (774+ words) by Julian Baggini+ BIO is a writer and philosopher. His latest books are How to Think Like a Philosopher (2023) and How the World Eats (2024). Listen to this essay Walking Man II (1960) by Alberto Giacometti at the National Gallery of Art,…...

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The lesson of Mexistentialism: the strength of uncertainty | Aeon Essays

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (553+ words) by Carlos Alberto S'nchez+ BIO is professor of philosophy at San Jos" State University. He is the author of several books, most recently Mexican Philosophy for the 21st Century (2023) and Blooming in the Ruins: How Mexican Philosophy Can Guide You Toward…...

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Time is real – if you view it through the lens of heat | Aeon Videos

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (134+ words) Video by Quanta Magazine Producers: Emily Buder, Zack Savitsky What do past, present and future mean to a philosopher of time? Time is fundamental, space is emergent " why physicists are rethinking reality Mind-bending new quantum experiments are blurring past, present…...

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Would immortality offer a curse of boredom or endless novelty? | Aeon Videos

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (129+ words) Writers: Sarah Stroud, Michael Vazquez Even in modern secular societies, belief in an afterlife persists. Why? What separates life from death? The line is fuzzier than we might expect Demystifying death " a palliative care specialist's practical guide to life's end…...

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When we turned time into a line, we reimagined past and future | Aeon Essays

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (585+ words) by Emily Thomas+ BIO Detail from Adams Synchronological Chart of Universal History created by Sebastian C Adams in 1881. This timeline is a visual representation of world history, spanning from 4004 BCE to 1881 CE. Courtesy the David Rumsey Map Collection is professor…...

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How David Hume split literature from philosophy | Aeon Essays

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (535+ words) by Katie Ebner-Landy+ BIO The Connoisseurs (1783) by David Allan. Courtesy the National Galleries of Scotland is assistant professor of aesthetics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and a Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows. She is the author of…...

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What Gödel’s incompleteness theorems say about AI morality | Aeon Essays

6+ mon, 4+ week ago  (257+ words) by Elad Uzan+ BIO is a departmental lecturer at the Blavatnik School of Government, as well as a member of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. He was awarded the American Philosophical Association's Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship in 2023 and will…...

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Why reading Martha C Nussbaum’s philosophy is pure pleasure | Aeon Essays

11+ mon, 4+ week ago  (466+ words) by Brandon Robshaw+ BIO is a lecturer in philosophy, creative writing and children's literature for the Open University in the UK. His books include Should a Liberal State Ban the Burqa? (2020) and Martha Nussbaum and Politics (2023). His next book, Weird…...