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Call for Submissions to a Publication that Welcomes Original Philosophy

Call for Submissions to a Publication that Welcomes Original Philosophy

Between the hazardous rocks of Scylla and Charybdis lies a passage to new vistas.
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Douglas Giles, PhD
Whose Acts of Defining and Naming are Acceptable and Whose are Mere Childish Name-Calling?

Whose Acts of Defining and Naming are Acceptable and Whose are Mere Childish Name-Calling?

Shhhh… It all depends on brute force and power and which individuals or collectives of people have more
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Aza Y. Alam
Philosophic — Part 1

Philosophic — Part 1

Philosophy and Rhetoric Are Joined at the Hip
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Paul Hunt
Does Defining Racism Overcome it?

Does Defining Racism Overcome it?

A philosophical enquiry into the uses and abuses of definitions of racism
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Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD
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The Saturation Theory of Popularity

The Saturation Theory of Popularity

What goes up, must come down
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Martin Vidal
The Profound Indestructibility of Quantum Information

The Profound Indestructibility of Quantum Information

Why Must Quantum States be represented by Complex Numbers Rather Than Real Valued?
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Selena Routley
Orientation Worlds in Politics

Orientation Worlds in Politics

Text of my presentation at the conference of the Foundation For Philosophical Orientation
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Douglas Giles, PhD
When Infinity Defied the Logicians

When Infinity Defied the Logicians

Notes on Roger Penrose’s notes on the foundations of mathematics
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Pedro Barbalho fka Alex P. Bird
The Ethical Crisis in Women’s Healthcare: Cost vs. Care

The Ethical Crisis in Women’s Healthcare: Cost vs. Care

How Economic Pressures Compromise the Quality of Care for Women
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Serena
How Empirical Science Fails When It Comes to Complex Systems

How Empirical Science Fails When It Comes to Complex Systems

We still need thinkers and theorists to make sense of the world around us
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Martin Vidal
Why Our Personality Changes Around Different People

Why Our Personality Changes Around Different People

Between every two people, there is an instinct to establish a social hierarchy
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Martin Vidal
Why Living in a Dysfunctional Country Might Be Better For You

Why Living in a Dysfunctional Country Might Be Better For You

Comparing American individualism to Japanese collectivism
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Martin Vidal
Unthinginess: The True Essence of The Quantum Mechanics

Unthinginess: The True Essence of The Quantum Mechanics

Why i find the Quantum Mechanics to be far more intuitve than Classical Mechanics!
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Selena Routley

The Human Being is the Passage Between Two Worlds: Wilderness and Civilization

The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle defined the human being as the “political animal” in in order to express the two sides…
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Glenn Parton
We Are The Wet Savanna Animals

We Are The Wet Savanna Animals

To seek "understanding" in quantum mechanics is the height of human arrogance and hubris. It hopelessly overestimates the capabilities of…
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Selena Routley
Wild Socialism: Kantian Aesthetics and Hegelian Dialectics

Wild Socialism: Kantian Aesthetics and Hegelian Dialectics

The importance of experiencing the beauty of wilderness
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Glenn Parton
The Philosophy of Time

The Philosophy of Time

Perhaps the most mysterious aspect of existence
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Douglas Giles, PhD
On Effective Altruism

On Effective Altruism

Assessing the popular approach to charitable giving
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Marcus Dredge
Full Born

Full Born

A Holistic Consideration
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R.E.L.
“Love is of the Beautiful,” said Diotima

“Love is of the Beautiful,” said Diotima

Human self-consciousness gives rise to a unique problem that no other creature on earth has to deal with — namely, how to solve the…
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Glenn Parton
Cooperative Selection

Cooperative Selection

The Biological Force That Creates and Maintains Species
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Im Anom
Accepting the World Isn’t Fair Changed My Life

Accepting the World Isn’t Fair Changed My Life

I Decided to Embrace Life’s Injustices: How Accepting Reality Helped Me Build Mental Toughness
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Bikey Thapa
The Oppressive State and the Ego

The Oppressive State and the Ego

Civilization and our relationship with the Earth
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Glenn Parton
Gateways and Knowledge — Part 1

Gateways and Knowledge — Part 1

How the Gateway Architecture Generates Knowledge
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Im Anom
On the Good Use of Pride

On the Good Use of Pride

Some of us should be proud, but others might need to focus more on practicing humility. Here’s why.
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Pedro Barbalho fka Alex P. Bird
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