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Published on June 22, 2026 1:42 AM GMT What the average human understands continues to drastically increase. Humans today know more than the average human fifty years ago. This is because of inventions like the web, which give us access to most of the knowledge available to humans instantaneously. A new age of epistemology has begun with AI, in that AI-generated summaries continue this trend of g…

Background Argument Consider how does physicalism make sense of the color red. There are actually three different things: The physical stimulus: light around 650 nm. The represented external ...

Who was the first major female logician in the history of logic who made more major contributions to the development of logic than to other related fields (like mathematics or computing)? Wikipedia's ...

A groundbreaking theory put forward by researchers suggests that conscious experience may not be limited to biological organisms made of flesh and blood. Professor Eric Schwitzgebel from the University of California and Dr Jeremy Pober of the University of Lisbon have developed what they call the 'Copernican Principle of Consciousness'. Their proposal argues that awareness is not an exclusive tra…

I don’t usually respond to attacks on me from the Discovery Institute and its flacks, but I couldn’t resist listening to this 25-minute talk on free will from pediatric neurosurgeon and Intelligent Design advocate Michael Egnor, who’s been going after me for years (read the last link to Wikipedia, and his Discovery Institute biography here). … Continue reading ID advocate Michael Egnor defends fr…

The question is in the title. How would you formalize the statement :"all generalizations are false, except this one"? in predicate calculus?

The Question: What is so unreasonable about the effectiveness of mathematics? Thoughts: It seems inevitable, or even false. Suppose a system S=Γ∪{A} of axioms applies to a phenomenon, where A is an ...

Did Kant think all necessary reasoning is reducible to Barbara (1st figure) syllogisms? C. S. Peirce claims in "The Nature of Meaning" (Selected Philosophical Writings, 1893-1913 p. 219) ...

(The Atlantic) – It’s sin. For the past few years, I’ve been troubled by a word, and that word is sin. I keep reaching for it, because it seems to be the only term strong enough to describe the new … Read More

Are science and religion enemies or allies? I recorded this debate 14 years ago, and the question has only gotten sharper. Lincoln Cannon is a software engineer with degrees in philosophy and business. He is also president of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. So when he argues that science and religion are complementary, he is not […]

This episode of The Gray Area was guest-hosted by senior producer Avishay Artsy. College ethics professors don’t usually make headlines that reverberate around the world. And yet, Texas A&M University philosophy professor Martin Peterson found himself being interviewed dozens of times after university officials told him to remove the Greek philosopher Plato from his class […]

Getting the future right is now big business. But at a festival in Berkeley, forecasters worry that sports markets could take the whole industry down.

The Inamori Foundation today announced experimental multimedia artist and musician Laurie Anderson to receive the 2026 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy.

A philosophical reflection on how violence sustains life, yet human consciousness uniquely resists it by creating meaning beyond destruction.

What if consciousness is just perception perceiving itself? Is that proof we’re in a simulation? Come geek out inside The Giant’s Shoulder → https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shou… You’re not just perceiving the world — you’re perceiving that you perceive, and Joscha Bach says that loop is what consciousness actually is. The AI researcher and cognitive scientist unpacks consciousness […]

What are the characteristics of someone who should pursue a major in philosophy? Personally, I've spent roughly a year taking mathematics and physics courses, but generally don't find myself getting ...

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The philosophy the SpaceX IPO stands for is trying to normalise the idea that what is true is only a function of who possesses the force required to assert it