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Monday, 2 December 2024

Humanity- version 2.0

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By Chengde Chen* N ever before has humanity faced such a prospect of destruction, As if unsure whether tomorrow will bring the sun or a mush...
Monday, 21 October 2024

Towards a New Ecological Paradigm

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The medieval world was oriented to devotion as creatures of God and, in a parallel hierarchy, to submission to kings. By Andrew Porter  At ...
Monday, 16 September 2024

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: And the Deception of Perception

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By Keith Tidman   I t is a tribute to the timelessness of Plato’s ideas that his philosophical stories still echo powerfully in the contempo...
Monday, 12 August 2024

The Distressed Spider and Intervention: A Thought Experiment

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By Keith Tidman To intervene, or not to intervene?   Philosopher Thomas Nagel set the stage for a curious thought experiment. Nagel describe...
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Monday, 15 July 2024

Are We Alone in the Universe, or Not? And Does It Matter?

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Peering through Saturn’s rings, the Cassini probe caught a glimpse of a faraway planet and its moon. At a distance of just under 900 million...
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Monday, 20 May 2024

America’s Polarised Public Square and the Case of the 2024 Presidential Campaign

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Plato’s tale of shadows being misinterpreted in the cave can be taken as a warning about the dangers of propaganda and misinformation By Kei...
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Monday, 6 May 2024

On the Trail of Human Consciousness

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By Keith Tidman   D aniel Dennett  once called consciousness the “last surviving mystery” humankind faces. That may be premature and even a ...
Monday, 15 April 2024

Models, Metaphysics and Reality: How Philosophy keeps science on track

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By Rob Hamilton Does God exist? What is consciousness? How can we know what is real? Q uestions such as these have always perplexed humani...
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Monday, 4 March 2024

Picture Post #43 The Importance of Empathy

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  'Because things don’t appear to be the known thing; they aren’t what they seemed to be neither will they become what they might appear...
Monday, 29 January 2024

Bittersweet Ballads

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Children playing amidst the rubble of damaged buildings in a camp for Palestinian refugees By Martin Cohen P alestine Wail and Other Bitters...
Monday, 8 January 2024

What's in a name?

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By Shoidur Rahman F rench Martin ique: no marionette martinet then, or nightingale. Thus begins this tail, as all tails do, quietly and dece...
Monday, 25 December 2023

POETRY: Oh, AI!

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The ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan to in conversation with the contemporary novelist Mo Yan, Courtesy AI. By Chengde Chen O h, AI , are you th...