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Showing posts with label Keith Tidman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keith Tidman. Show all posts
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, 17 July 2023

When Is a Heap Not a Heap? The Sorites Paradox and ‘Fuzzy Logic’

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By Keith Tidman   I magine you are looking at a ‘heap’ of wheat comprising some several million grains and just one grain is removed. Surel...
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Monday, 26 June 2023

Ideas Animate Democracy

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Keith Tidman   T he philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once advised, ‘Life can only be understood backwards … but it must be lived forward’ — tha...
Monday, 12 June 2023

The Euthyphro Dilemma: What Makes Something Moral?

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The sixteenth-century nun and mystic, Saint Teresa. In her autobiography, she wrote that she  ‘ was very fond of St. Augustine …  for he was...