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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...
Tuesday 5 December 2023

Chernobyl's Philosophical Lesson

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How to Slay the Nuclear Zombie?  By Martin Cohen Review article on the occasion of the publication of ‘Chernobyl’ by Emin Altan N ow here&#...
Monday 6 November 2023

A Poem comparing Confucius and Marx (with a twist)

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By Chengde Chen I just asked ChatGPT, one of the new artificial intelligence to write a poem about Confucius and Marx. You can see what I g...
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Thursday 26 October 2023

Why Don't People Seem to Care about Palestinian Lives?

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Palestine is being ‘ethnically clensed’ in plain sight - yet the West seems indifferent By Martin Cohen P alestine is being ‘ethnically clea...
Monday 28 August 2023

A Word to the Wise

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Philosophy is a sailboat that deftly catches the fair breeze… By Andrew Porter W e live in a time in which most people, were you to ask them...
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Monday 7 August 2023

The Dubious Ethics of the Great Food Reset

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Picture “for a school project” By Martin Cohen   T here’s a plan afoot to change the way you eat. Meat is destroying the land, fish and chip...
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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...