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Nolen Gertz
"The risk of nihilism is that it alienates us from anything good or true. Yet believing in nothing has positive potential."
Nolen Gertz is an Assistant Professor of applied philosophy at the University of Twente and a senior researcher of the 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology in Eindhoven, both in the Netherlands. He is the author of a number of books including The Philosophy of War and Exile and Nihilism and Technology. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of political philosophy, existential phenomenology, and philosophy of technology.
His traillblazing work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and on the ABC Australia website, as well as in interviews for BBC World, Al Jazeera, Austrian Public Radio, Ireland's National Independent Radio, and France's Philosophie Magazine.
"He always satiates when I seek meaningful bites on the seemingly meaningless political, social, and economic existences so many parts of the world are experiencing today" - 032c Magazine
"The risk of nihilism is that it alienates us from anything good or true. Yet believing in nothing has positive potential."
Nolen Gertz is an Assistant Professor of applied philosophy at the University of Twente and a senior researcher of the 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology in Eindhoven, both in the Netherlands. He is the author of a number of books including The Philosophy of War and Exile and Nihilism and Technology. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of political philosophy, existential phenomenology, and philosophy of technology.
His traillblazing work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and on the ABC Australia website, as well as in interviews for BBC World, Al Jazeera, Austrian Public Radio, Ireland's National Independent Radio, and France's Philosophie Magazine.
"He always satiates when I seek meaningful bites on the seemingly meaningless political, social, and economic existences so many parts of the world are experiencing today" - 032c Magazine
Nolen Gertz Videos
Rhetoric and reality
Why is language no guide to reality?
The communication crisis
Reclaiming communication from tech
The reality of living forever
Should we stop resisting death?
Nihilism and the meaning of life
Losing hope in the information age
Nolen Gertz 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?
More Articles
Tipping points and the Earth's system
Human history in the age of the Anthropocene
Could blockchain end big tech?
Nature is not a resource for humans
The dangers of Zuckerberg's metaverse
The new science of extreme weather
AI is turning us into machines
Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong
How technology will revolutionise relationships
We should all be worried about synthetic data
Google's AI is not sentient. Not even slightly
The AI containment problem
Technological determinism is wrong
The dangers of science behind closed doors
Why electric cars are a mistake
Why we have the future of AI wrong
Why AI must learn to forget
All-knowing machines are a fantasy
AI may need sleep too
The lunacy of 'machine consciousness'
'Machine consciousness' is not lunacy
The end of astronauts
Machine Life
Google, Amazon and Plato’s Cave
The culture of bees and the AI apocalypse
AI and the end of reason
Controlling the threats from AI
AI, Moloch, and the race to the bottom
Stem cells: the hype and the dangerous reality
Ancient traits in modern life