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369 words Infinity can't be reasoned with (or why infinite sets are types) 248 words Noam Chomsky - Thought 230 words Noam Chomsky - Thought 229 words Why We Shouldn't Trust the Opinion of the Majority - a short reading from Plato's Crito 223 words Since there is only a few more months until Zapffe's existentialist, anti-natalist 'On the Tragic' (1941) is finally published in English: The View from Mount Zapffe | Philosophy Now, Issue 45 223 words A short argument for why time must have had a beginning 179 words "The Moral Status of Micro-Inequities", an essay on the ethics of workplace inequality by Samantha Brennan, who is doing an AMA here today 196 words The Trolly Problem Fully Explained - including Throwing the Fat Man off the Bridge variation 200 words Musings of an Evil sceptic - an argument against the concept of Evil outside of religious context. 407 words I was reading some Carl Jung and came across the best account for an entelechy of consciousness I've ever encountered. 664 words Actual Consciousness: why our minds aren't confined to our brains 323 words The whole philosophy community is mourning Derek Parfit. Here's why he mattered. 266 words Democracy Is Not A Truth Machine -- It is claimed that through open free debate true ideas will conquer false ones by their merit. Democracy thus has an epistemic value as a kind of truth machine. But this is so obviously wrong as to be an embarrassment. 176 words Professor Tom Regan: An Introduction to Animal Rights 1,095 words "I Was Once a Fetus: That is Why Abortion is Wrong" Alexander Pruss [pdf] 193 words Short explanation of the Prisoner's Dilemma, a problem related to Contractarianism. 236 words Jordan Peterson: Tragedy vs Evil 501 words For Thanksgiving: the ethics of killing animals for food 208 words The Ad Hominem Fallacy: what it is and how to avoid it. Let this be a guide for the next 4 years. 370 words The Case Against Speciesism