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Book Review: The Beginning of Infinity thedeepdish.org/book-review-th…

Associate Professor Ekaterina Hertog has been featured as part of the The British Academy 's Digital Society programme, which has today published 13 papers exploring the question: 'What are the possibilities of a good digital society?' Read more here: oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/news/associate…

It's tempting to see dogmatism as a trauma response, but with some frequency I see people pick up new things to be dogmatic about for no apparent reason. Fanaticism as a lifestyle can often seem like one of those crazy things that works.

A recent study seemed to confirm that online anonymity decreases our ethics and depersonalizes people on the other side of the server. Essentially, we're becoming bigger jerks online. nautil.us/how-were-becom…

The Problem of Free Will Solved - by Steve Stewart-Williams stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-problem-…

My new book, "FALSE: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True" will be released on March 3, 2025. Pre-order your copy today! Thanks to Oxford University Press & Solow Literary for making it happen. amazon.com/dp/0197765270

This is what in Japanese is known as ‘tsundoku’: buying book after book to add to a pile you will never get to.

"A different Arendt came into view, and I began to see how her political toughness was there in order to protect the frailty that she saw at the heart of the human condition." Samantha Rose Hill and Lyndsey Stonebridge talk "We Are Free to Change the World." lareviewofbooks.org/article/amour-…

“Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change. Skinner, Koselleck, Blumenberg, Rosanvallon, Foucault" (Cambridge UP, 2024) Elias Palti cambridge.org/core/books/int…

Memetics and the arquitecture of language onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/to…

Dennett used this illustration to represent the problem of consciousness. But in a general sense it is a problem of explanatory knowledge in the social sciences and humanities?

I remember Benoit Mandelbrot visiting my father in the 70's. I was a young teenager at the time. He came with gigantic print outs of fake mountains he created with fractal geometry on the super IBM printers and computers. My father was literally mesmerized. They were indeed

"Terror can rule absolutely only over men who are isolated against each other." — Hannah Arendt

The The Royal Society and other academies of science, science publications etc. should declare that creationism, indigenous knowing etc are nonsense. They should maintain strict silence on whether schools should teach them. The same for all other is/ought issues. They do neither.

Forthcoming: "Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science" Natasha Piano "how American political scientists misinterpreted the elite theory of democracy and in so doing made our political system vulnerable to oligarchic takeover" hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…

In philosophy, if you think the answer is obvious, you haven't understood the question.