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There is no escaping metaphysics

You’re doing metaphysics, even if you don’t notice

Robert Stern
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Wittgenstein was a metaphysician

Metaphysics as an antidote to unclear thinking

A.W. Moore
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Seeing is not perceiving

Perception is a learnt skill

Kenneth L. Pearce
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Reality Distortion

How language distorts reality

Language doesn't reflect, it shapes reality

Nick Enfield
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Freedom from nature: the ultimate enslavement

The end of nature is the end of humanity

Slavoj Žižek
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After Metaphysics: Rorty and American Pragmatism

Richard Rorty on leaving metaphysics behind

Elin Danielsen Huckerby
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72 Philosophy Books Everyone Should Read

From Ancient Greece to Postmodernism.

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World Philosophy Day

15 Ideas that Inspired the World’s Leading Thinkers

Philosophers Judith Butler, Simon Blackburn, Massimo Pigliucci and more on the ideas that shaped their work and world view

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Contemporary Women Philosophers You Should Read

Donna Haraway, Rebecca Goldstein, and more.

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Why Study Philosophy?

What does philosophy actually do?

Peter Hacker
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What's Metaphysics All About?

Even philosophers can't figure it out.

Amanda K. Bryant
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A conscious universe

Panpsychism vs idealism

Philip Goff
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The Return of Metaphysics: Russell and Realism

Analytic philosophy's realist revolt and its limits

Fraser MacBride
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Analytic philosophy has a language problem

The roots of its contemporary decadence

Filippo Contesi
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Derrida and the trouble with metaphysics

Peter Salmon
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Common sense leads philosophy astray

And the alternative of scientific rigour

Marcus Arvan
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The Return of Idealism: Russell vs Hegel

Hegel's return in analytic philosophy

Paul Redding
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The Return of Metaphysics: Hegel vs Kant

German Idealism and the fate of philosophy

Robert Pippin
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Science can't state all the facts

The book of the world is a fantasy

Tim Crane
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Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100

The legacy of a masterpiece

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Truth isn't correspondence with the facts

Habermas and the social nature of truth

Paul Giladi
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Antirealism and the analytic-continental split

The Kantian legacy

Lee Braver
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Rorty revisited

The truth, the whole truth, and post-truth

Neil Gascoigne
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Beyond the analytic / continental divide

The two models of philosophy

Simon Glendinning
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