#Philosophers

Rival Voices

nosilverv

ok BOYS AND GIRLS had my second session this week (yea, i went back for seconds) and it was GOOD. We talked about TRUTH and LYING and it's way more

Dr Felicity Sedgewick

SedgewickF

It is Paper 14 of 52 today - "Autism and Christianity: an ethnographic intervention", Bustion, 2017, Journal of the American Academy of ReligionSeems appropriate for #EasterSunday #WeeklyPapers #Autism #NeurodiverseChurch I've

3Donimus

3Donimus

1. The times we are experiencing are dark. At these moments we have to become stronger and tougher than ever before. Just like a tree: to grow strong roots it

heli✺s

helioslogos

ATLANTIS a lost history thread Atlantis is the entry point for many people researching lost civilizations. It’s the perfect starting point with many Greek philosophers having written about it extensively.

Jacob Randolph

j_rhett

I posted about this yesterday and deleted it because I wanted to offer a more constructive response. This is from Denny Burk's article at @CBMWorg posted yesterday. I take issue

Chukwuemeka

IdokoChukwueme2

NOTES FOR THE WOULD-BE REVOLUTIONARYGenerally, in Criminal Law, a spontaneous reaction to a provocation, which then results in homicide, will usually diminish the culpability of the perpetrator.#Thread The provocation will

Shadi Hamid

shadihamid

Foucault: "The plague-stricken town, traversed throughout with hierarchy, surveillance, observation, writing; the town immobilized by the functioning of an extensive power that bears in a distinct way over all individual

lou reading things

lazyuniverses

a non-comprehensive list of men that i've met in my 7 years of university education: a thread THE FIRST YEAR ATTORNEY: this man wore a suit for his first day

Sonal🇮🇳

Dharm_gatha

Vedic Varna system (The 4 main class system which is Brahmana, Kashtriya, Vaishya & sudra, it is THE CLASS System & not the CASTE system) चातुर्वर्ण्यं मया सृष्टं गुणकर्मविभागश: |तस्य

Shobita Parthasarathy

ShobitaP

Ananda Chakrabarty, biotech pioneer, died July 10. Working for General Electric, he developed a micro-organism genetically engineered to eat oil. This led to a landmark 1980 Supreme Court decision, Diamond

AQ

Evollaqi

I find that there is something very inspiring about the pluralist liberal vision.Each individual has their own conception of the good; their own preferences, projects, and plans; their own interests

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tfoale

THREAD WARNING: This thread is entitled "How to outthink a Brexiter". It works equally well in debunking (or perhaps proving) any belief-based ideas. It's based on a logical method for

Georg 'Maverick' Löfflmann

gloefflmann

The problem with philosophers like Jürgen Habermas and other German 'intellectuals' opposing weapons for Ukraine is that their own pacifist sentiment has developed in a narcissistic Cold War monoculture of

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

A brief appreciation of @NegarestaniReza's _Intelligence and Spirit_ from @urbanomicdotcom, and in particular, the final chapter on the philosophy of intelligence.https://amzn.to/3elGWI7 I&S gets something really right, I think, which i

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/Trump caught COVID-19:The same diagnosisThe same medical reportsThe same updates from the same doctorThe same videos of TrumpThe same photos of TrumpThe same available facts...Two totally different conclusionsLet's talk about

Jonathan Fuller

JonathanJFuller

An op ed is basically an extended argument and philosophers examine arguments, so here is a rapid review of this perspective piece by @mlipsitch, @gregggonsalves, @CarlosdelRio7, @RWalensky from a philosopher