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James Tartaglia
James Tartaglia is a philosopher and author of books like Philosophy in a Meaningless Life and Philosophy in a Technological World: GODS AND TITANS. He seeks to reconnect philosophy with issues of natural human interest andre-position philosophy within a contemporary culture dominated by scientific understanding. James also leads the band Continuum of Selves, which combines jazz music with philosophical ideas in a Jazz-Philosophy fusion.

James Tartaglia is a philosopher and author of books like Philosophy in a Meaningless Life and Philosophy in a Technological World: GODS AND TITANS. He seeks to reconnect philosophy with issues of natural human interest andre-position philosophy within a contemporary culture dominated by scientific understanding. James also leads the band Continuum of Selves, which combines jazz music with philosophical ideas in a Jazz-Philosophy fusion.
James Tartaglia Videos

Determinism is a superstition
An interview with James Tartaglia

The essential philosophy of fun
Have we lost out on the best part of life?

Video games and the meaning of life
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Consciousness and ChatGPT
Is ChatGPT conscious?
James Tartaglia Articles
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Philosophy vs Science
On reason and the search for truth

The Reality Illusion
Has perception evolved to trick us?

On Language and Logic
Why language dominates philosophy

Thinking Dangerously, Living Differently
Can philosophy change how we think?

The Word and the World
What are the limits of language?

The Edge of Reality
Where mathematical metaphors meet reality

The Future of the Post-Truth World
Is the era of objective truth over?

Stories to Change the World
On rhetoric, meaning and language

The Laws of the Universe
Are the laws of nature just human constructs?

Making Sense of Reality
Do we see what they tell us to see?

Beyond Experience
What is the nature of reality?

Thinking Across the World
Julian Baggini | Non-western philosophy traditions

Lies and Beauty
Is lying somehow essential to our lives?

The Limits of My World
Was philosophy's linguistic turn a mistake?

In the Beginning Was the Word
Is the world dependent on language?

Language and the World
How does language describe the world?

How do you solve a problem like uncertainty?
A new paradigm of risk

Limits of Thought: John McWhorter and Stanley Fish
Can we think outside of language?

Truth and Beauty
Do beautiful theories really explain the world?

Dreaming the Future
Utopia and the Limits of Thought

Limits of Language
Can we find the right words for everything?

The Known, The Strange and the New
Why does the world remain puzzling and strange?

Beyond the Machine
Metaphors of the body

Heraclitus' Dream
Are particles or processes fundamental?

Unnatural Laws
Are eternal laws an illusion?

Wittgenstein's Collection of Nonsense

After Relativism
The ways forward from post-modernity

The Secrets of the World
Can we have a complete description of reality?
Thinking Differently
Language, gender and sexuality

The Laughing Philosopher
Does comedy hold the key to truth and morality?

Language, Metaphor, and Reality
Methaphors to change the world

Unexplained Events
Does everything have a cause and effect?

Plato Not Prozac
Philosophy's therapeutic power

Fantasy and Reality
Should we 'get real' or embrace fantasy?

The Sex Lives of Philosophers
And what they tell us about their ideas

Fantasies and Lies
Are myths dangerous?

The End of Ideas
Has celebrity obliterated the intellectual?

The Ultimate Map of Reality
Could a metaphysical revival be on the agenda?

Thinking the Unthinkable
The limits of thought

After Postmodernity

Beyond Reality
What are the limits of our understanding?

The Elegant Universe
Is truth always simple?

Everywhere and Nowhere
Are binary oppositions real?

Beyond Truth and Falsehood
What is real?

Stranger Than We Think
Do supernatural beliefs reflect the limits of human understanding?

Dangerously Big Ideas
Do we need grand theories?

This Debate Has No Title
Solving the self-referential paradox

God's Map
Charting the universe

The Call of Silence
The route to understanding

I Think Therefore Iamb
Poetry gives pleasure, distraction and emotional outlet but can it uncover a greater truth?
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Me, myself and others

Knowing what to believe
Free will: an impossible reality

What physicists get wrong about consciousness

The brain doesn't create consciousness

Are you responsible for your unconscious self?

The Dangers of Musk’s Neuralink

Moral responsibility without free will

Consciousness is the collapse of the wave function

Free will or no free will, punishment is justified

The impotence of reason

Schrödinger and the conscious universe

Why panpsychism is baloney

Imagination, consciousness and animal dreams

The free will debate has real-world consequences

Denis Noble: Free will is not an illusion

Consciousness may not require a brain

Big tech doesn’t want AI to become conscious

Pinker on the power of irrationality

Future AI in the therapist's chair

When are intuitions a good guide to reality?

Nietzsche: ignorance sets us free

Why Steven Pinker is wrong about rationality

Consciousness begins with feeling, not thinking

The absurdity of mind as machine

Is rationality a fiction?

Brain noise doesn't explain consciousness

David Nutt: entropy explains consciousness

Bias doesn't always undermine truth

Brain vs Heart: a false dichotomy