#Philosophers

Yascha Mounk

Yascha_Mounk

It's rare that a short piece changes how I think about an important issue.But this, by @MetaHumean for @JoinPersuasion, really helped me understand something that's been bugging me about the

Spíosra 🍃

SpiosraFox

I'm honestly not sure. It looks to be a container? Would like to learn what it is and used for.https://twitter.com/JustSayXtian/status/1321272750405767169 This is used to keep track of one's place in

Johnathan Smilges

jsmilges

Some highlights from the absolutely CRINGE interview of Peter Singer in The New Yorker. Racism, orientalism, ableism, AND transphobia all at once. Are we surprised? No. Are we still deeply

Superman

OneSupermann

How to have confidence like warlords?-THREAD- Almost every human Including you Works on building the superficial level of confidenceA type of confidence that is fakeA confidence that is built on

Valentijn de Alexandrijn

alexandrijn

Someone (@LandsharkRides asked me about the symbolism of the story of Little Red Riding Hood. I'll summarise what I told him here.The fairy tale is almost always an exoteric description

𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐡

m0vingpresence

𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘭 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘮: 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘻𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴 — 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 ❧ ✧ john bonham & neil

Aaron Hanlon

AaronRHanlon

1) This is an interesting thread about which I have some further thoughts, and the power’s out here so by god I will supply them! ...https://twitter.com/schlemiel_zola/status/1248335438521217025 2) I have always

Stella Rose

BlancheMinerva

Phenomenal take-down of @ConceptualJames's sophistry by @deonteleologist. James is an enemy of anyone who is interested in rational and reasonable discussion, which is quite amusing given his rhetoric. He is

Ron Offringa

RonOffringa

This article unfortunately has several inaccuracies. For example, Calvin explicitly denied a descent to the underworld, calling it a childish story. Instead he says Christ suffered hellish torments that he

Michael Ian Black

michaelianblack

Yesterday I tweeted about calling a new constitutional convention to begin the process of rebuilding America when this administration ends. The way I see it, it would be a multi-year

The Distributist

DataDistribute

So this is a summary of the core right-wing critique of the "New Atheists".In short, my motivating question will be: "what element of meta-politics did Hitchens miss (and Dawkins continues

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black_tym

I get asked a lot where to start with Joseph Campbell and where to find the content, so here's a thread! Where to begin: The Power of Myth with Bill

Helen De Cruz

Helenreflects

It's important that any governmental spending on Covid-19 relief should carve out funds to pay psychology and philosophy consultants who work on science communication. Those experts could devise strategies that

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

Nietzsche famously said that philosophers largely rationalize their own pathologies. Here, in White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo proves the rule by telling you how racist she is. The rest of us

Prospero, bringer of value

prspr0

This idea is starting to meme, and it’s easy to see why. Literacy is obviously dangerous. Language is more mysterious than most imagine, and it can twist and warp our

Greta LaFleur

GretaLaFleur

Ok, so I obviously fully agree that the “canon” of eighteenth-century Anglophone texts and their authors is a trash fire. But as someone who works on the C18– a field