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A lone silhouette stands before a stack of posters with overlapping text; the scene feels quiet and contemplative.

Truth isn't the answer to 'fake news'

Democracy and journalism don't need truth, they need good arguments

Narain D. Batra
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Sartre, Matisse, and the radical openness of reality

Sartre, Matisse, and the radical openness of reality

How to see the real through the unreal

Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
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Our search for beauty is what makes us human

Our search for beauty is what makes us human

We are pattern seeking creatures

Nicholas Humphrey
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Kierkegaard, Bob Dylan, and how to become yourself

Kierkegaard, Bob Dylan, and how to become yourself

On masks, meaning, and the philosophy of the unfinished self

Christopher Barnett
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From the Beatles to Bowie, genius is contagious

From the Beatles to Bowie, genius is contagious

How the greats became great

Tony D. Sampson
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Nolan's Odyssey is naive about the nature of guilt and power

Nolan's Odyssey is naive about the nature of guilt and power

Odysseus knows nothing of our contemporary moral code

Kathryn Lawson
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A close-up of a vibrant red rose held by a person, showcasing its petals and lush green leaves against a dark background.

Science gets sexual experience dangerously wrong

Sex needs rescuing from scientific imperialism

Paul Giladi
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A group of people holding glasses of beer at a rustic wooden table during a social gathering.

The dangers of a sober society

How intoxication creates society

Edward Slingerland
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A surreal landscape featuring a colorful hot air balloon amidst swirling clouds, with vibrant mountains in the foreground and a bright, stylized sky.

Psychedelic experience isn’t just brain chemistry

Not just a lightshow

Ricky Williamson
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Nolan's Odyssey is naive about the nature of guilt and power

Nolan's Odyssey is naive about the nature of guilt and power

Odysseus knows nothing of our contemporary moral code

Kathryn Lawson
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A girl with a backpack stands on a city street, gazing at a vibrant sunset with colorful clouds and two large planets in the sky.

Anime is the philosophical medium of our time

Japan's answer to Western nihilism

Mike Benett
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A man with a shaved head and sunglasses, dressed in a white suit, appears against a green digital matrix backdrop, suggesting themes of technology and virtual reality.

Andrew Tate, Nietzsche and the Matrix

The dangers of the appearance–reality distinction

Alexis Papazoglou
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Art & AestheticsArrow Head

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Technology to fashion, originality is a myth

There is no such thing as novelty

Narain D. Batra
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Aristotle, reality TV, and why fiction reveals more than fact

Fiction uncovers something deeper than truth

Karen Simecek
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Dostoevsky, nihilism, and the fight for human nature

Russian nihilism on trial

Gary Saul Morson
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Thomas Mann and the fall of the West

Mann's masterpiece predicted liberalism's crisis

Oliver Adelson
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Pinker vs Nietzsche: Is music the basis of language?

Language is born out of music

Kathleen Higgins
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Narrative & RealityArrow Head

How Mahlers symphonies reclaimed Nietzsche from the far right

How Mahler's symphonies reclaim Nietzsche from the far right

A philosophy better expressed through music

Leah Batstone
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Experience moves beyond the self and beyond linear time

The philosophy of Clarice Lispector

Michael Marder
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History is never true, but it can be justified

How historians can do without truth

Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen
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Philosophy must embrace poetry

How poetry captures the difficulty of reality

John Gibson
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Santa and the truth about lying

The trial of St Nick

Michael Kuznets
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Relationships & SexualityArrow Head

Science gets sexual experience dangerously wrong

Science gets sexual experience dangerously wrong

Sex needs rescuing from scientific imperialism

Paul Giladi
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What dating apps get wrong about your love life

The online dating dilemma

Andrés Abeliuk
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The limits of consent

Power, sex, and agency

Melissa Rees
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Change your self, change your friends

Friendships without the pressure

Mark Phelan
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Philosophy is an erotic endeavor

What classical philosophy can teach us about love

Sam Woodward
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Society & CultureArrow Head

post truth we need truth seeking image of an eye taking in information

In a post-truth world truth-seeking is more important than ever

Knowing is a moral act

Jason Baehr
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Truth is dead, and that's a good thing

The democratic dream of social media is still alive and kicking

Steve Fuller
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The internet is broken, here's how to fix it

The real internet revolution starts now

Maurizio Ferraris
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The psychedelic origins, and future, of Western thought

The psychedelic genealogy of morals

Ricky Williamson
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Cultural memory should not keep us stuck in the past

On the urge for public memorialization

Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
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