295 | Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality
Emergence is a centrally important concept in science and philosophy. Indeed, the existence of higher-level emergent properties helps render the […]
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Philosophy
292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience
It’s not immoral to kick a rock; it is immoral to kick a baby. At what point do we start
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282 | Joel David Hamkins on Puzzles of Reality and Infinity
The philosophy of mathematics would be so much easier if it weren’t for infinity. The concept seems natural, but taking
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281 | Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution
Just like with physics, in biology it is perfectly possible to do most respectable work without thinking much about philosophy,
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269 | Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics
When it comes to social change, two questions immediately present themselves: What kind of change do we want to see
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262 | Eric Schwitzgebel on the Weirdness of the World
Scientists and philosophers sometimes advocate pretty outrageous-sounding ideas about the fundamental nature of reality. (Arguably I have been guilty of
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254 | William Egginton on Kant, Heisenberg, and Borges
It can be tempting, when first introduced to a deep concept of physics like Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, to draw grand
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253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation
David Deutsch is one of the most creative scientific thinkers working today, who has as a goal to understand and
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249 | Peter Godfrey-Smith on Sentience and Octopus Minds
The study of cognition and sentience would be greatly abetted by the discovery of intelligent alien beings, who presumably developed
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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Time
Is metaphysics like physics, but cooler? Or is it a relic of an outdated, pre-empirical way of thinking about the
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