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Reality, Closure and the illusion of truth

Science is about invention, not truth

Hilary Lawson
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Reality is a creation of consciousness

Consciousness is the boundary between the self and the world

Karl Friston
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"Following the science" is a dangerous illusion

Truth is personal, but we’ve evolved to pretend it’s not

Pascal Boyer
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Languages are social tools, not windows onto reality

There’s no such thing as “languages”

Vuk Vukotić
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When Data Replaces Reality

Truth is deeper than mathematics

Reality is not a number

Joanna Kavenna
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Truth is the most dangerous fantasy our species ever invented

The quest for truth is a prelude to violence

Manuel Delaflor
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The Sex Lives of Philosophers

Why philosophers should talk about their sex lives

Martin McQuillan
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After Relativism

"Everything is relative" has become the mantra of our age.

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Why Study Philosophy?

What does philosophy actually do?

Peter Hacker
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It’s a Postrealist World

Postrealism challenges both realism and relativism

Hilary Lawson
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Logic and the Linguistic Turn

Philosopher Michael Potter on modern logic.

Michael Potter
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Europe's Philosophical Rivalry

It comes down to competing views of human history.

Simon Glendinning
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Life's mysteries cannot be explained away, they are to be lived

On the human origins and limits of abstract thought

Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis
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Don’t despair about being a pessimist

Pessimists can change the world

Ian James Kidd
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Chinese philosophy's attack on reality's foundations

The kaleidoscopic metaphysics of Chinese Huayan philosophy

Nicholaos Jones
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Russell vs American philosophers and the attack on truth

Truth is a negotiation with reality

John Kaag
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Lions can speak, and we must try to understand them

Wittgenstein and why our politicians should talk to animals

Eva Meijer
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Wittgenstein and the paradoxes at the limits of language

An interview with Graham Priest

Oliver Adelson
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David Deutsch: "There is only one interpretation of quantum mechanics"

The bad philosophy derailing quantum mechanics

David Deutsch
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The cultural case for saving endangered languages

In defense of linguistic purism

Rhianwen Daniel
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Language creates an altered state of consciousness

Dismantling the scaffolding of the mind

Jeremy I Skipper
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The hidden fear that drives success

Psychoanalysis, conscientiousness, and the death drive

Jeff Greenberg
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Logic is nothing without metaphysics

Hegel and the birth of logic from being

Jacob McNulty
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The metaphysics of talking to aliens

How language structures reality

Matti Eklund
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