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

Knowing is a moral act

Jason Baehr
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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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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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AI, intimacy, and the end of love

It’s not love, it’s extraction

Nolen Gertz
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How Mahler's symphonies reclaim Nietzsche from the far right

A philosophy better expressed through music

Leah Batstone
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Albert Camus on love and the absurd

Absurdity may be king, but love saves us from it

Jamie Lombardi
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Science gets sexual experience dangerously wrong

Sex needs rescuing from scientific imperialism

Paul Giladi
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Beard vs Taleb: Scientism and Historical Inquiry

Twitter rows and the dangers of scientism

Massimo Pigliucci
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Psychedelic experience isn’t just brain chemistry

Not just a lightshow

Ricky Williamson
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The dangers of a sober society

How intoxication creates society

Edward Slingerland
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Harari and Žižek warn of a post-nature world

The two thinkers share a stage at HowTheLightGetsIn

Alexis Papazoglou
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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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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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ai affairs and the end of romance

AI, intimacy, and the end of love

It’s not love, it’s extraction

Nolen Gertz
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Love is not a virtue

What bell hooks got wrong about love and healing

Omari Edwards
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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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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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