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Metaphysics is a strange but essential project

Metaphysics is a strange but essential project

Science cannot escape metaphysics

Sebastian Rödl
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The universe is a puzzle that fits together only one way

The universe is a puzzle that fits together only one way

Why you can't step into the same celestial river twice

JB Manchak
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Anger is not a guide to truth or morality

Anger is not a guide to truth or morality

The hidden pitfalls of a powerful emotional tool

Benjamin Matheson
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The self creates itself out of nothing

The self creates itself out of nothing

Fichte and overcoming the paradox of the self

Gabriel Gottlieb
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Too much choice makes us less free

Too much choice makes us less free

Liberalism has left us paralyzed by choice

Barry Schwartz
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On the ultimate nature of reality

On the ultimate nature of reality

Graham Harman and Speculative Realism

Graham Harman
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Reality Bites

Is experience just a creative response to reality?

Editorial
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Two abstract figures in deep contemplation, one seated on a cube and the other on a pyramid, both with geometric shapes on their heads, expressing themes of thought and introspection.

The Minds of Strangers

Can we ever know the experience of others?

Anita Avramides
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A hooded figure in a dark suit stands in a futuristic setting, holding a black helmet, with vertical light patterns in the background.

The Last Jedi and the Problem of Free Will

Can free choice exist in an uncontrollable world?

John Donaldson
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A close-up of a police car's flashing blue lights, with blurred traffic and city lights in the background at night.

The three faces of racism

Inadvertent, habitual, explicit

Berit Brogaard
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A solitary figure stands in the center of a vast, intricate maze, symbolizing a search for clarity or direction amidst complexity.

Free will vs determinism: Can you escape fate?

Diving into the modern free will debate

Meghan Griffith
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Free will: an impossible reality

Free will: an impossible reality

Agency outside of nature

Raymond Tallis
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Metaphysics & LanguageArrow Head

reality closure and the illusion of trutgh copy

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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Truth is deeper than mathematics

Reality is not a number

Joanna Kavenna
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Mind & ReasonArrow Head

consciousness is not fundamental

Consciousness is not fundamental

Consciousness is the foundation of knowledge, not reality

James Cooke
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Consciousness can't be uploaded

Digital immortality is a metaphysical mirage

William Egginton
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The self exists and it is an illusion

Is there a self within consciousness?

Ricky Williamson
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China’s radical philosophy of action, free will, and the self

Free will is a Western problem, Chinese philosophy dissolves it

Brian Bruya
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Your body thinks as much as your mind

Thinking is embodied, spatial, and outside your head

Barbara Tversky
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Ethics & ReligionArrow Head

The idea of the universal good is dangerous

The idea of the universal good is dangerous

Moral universalism has failed

Tommy J. Curry
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Iris Murdoch and why the West’s spiritual crisis won’t be solved by religion

Transcendence without theism

Miles Leeson
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Humanity is no less superstitious now than in the past

The Big Bang theory, broken mirrors, and other superstitions

Rami Gabriel
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A life fully lived paradoxically reduces the fear of death

Meaning in life leads to less anxiety around dying

Julie Hannan
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There is no good and evil, only better and worse

What Peter Singer gets wrong about morality

Alastair Norcross
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