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Submission Guidelines to Original Philosophy
Submission Guidelines to Original Philosophy
New guidelines for 2025
Douglas Giles, PhD
Jan 7
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
Martin Vidal
Oct 2, 2024
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!
Selena Routley
Sep 29, 2024
On Effective Altruism
On Effective Altruism
Assessing the popular approach to charitable giving
Marcus Dredge
Sep 5, 2024
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How to Argue With a Trump Supporter
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Martin Vidal
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What Is Philosophic Truth?
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Glenn Parton
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After Epistemology
After Epistemology
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Paul Hunt
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A Long History of Almost Nothing
A Long History of Almost Nothing
If you think that the aether is a Nineteenth Century relic, modern physics, and indeed the whole of scientific history, may surprise you.
Selena Routley
Jan 20
G-d Is Seen by the Mind.
G-d Is Seen by the Mind.
Arguments for and against God’s existence miss the obvious
Lindsay Kelly
Jan 15
Why a Proper Understanding of Human Nature is Necessary
Why a Proper Understanding of Human Nature is Necessary
The ancient Greek philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were among the first to concern themselves with human nature. These…
Glenn Parton
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On Teaching Philosophy in a Business School: Or What It Means to Teach Theory to Business Majors
On Teaching Philosophy in a Business School: Or What It Means to Teach Theory to Business Majors
This article is inspired by a semester-long introductory course on management taught to incoming freshmen in the Fall of 2024 while also…
Clarissa AL Lee
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Are We Political Idiots? Your Moral Duty to Take a Public Stance.
Are We Political Idiots? Your Moral Duty to Take a Public Stance.
Do We Owe the World Our Opinion?
Daniel Kang
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Three Traps in the Pursuit of Meaning
Three Traps in the Pursuit of Meaning
Identifying and letting go of what hinders purposeful living
Suresh Natarajan
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Why Experts Are So Bad at Making Predictions
Why Experts Are So Bad at Making Predictions
It’s fundamentally impossible for human beings to make predictions in regards to complex systems
Martin Vidal
Dec 22, 2024
The Evolutionary Incentive to Dream
The Evolutionary Incentive to Dream
A theory as to why dreaming became such a common phenomenon throughout the animal kingdom
Martin Vidal
Dec 18, 2024
People Who Dislike Philosophy See the Graveyard but Not the Village in Which It Sits
People Who Dislike Philosophy See the Graveyard but Not the Village in Which It Sits
IT’S ALIVE!!!
Douglas Giles, PhD
Dec 8, 2024
I Am that which Must Always Overcome Itself
I Am that which Must Always Overcome Itself
Karma Yoga: Antidote to Suffering
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How Lacanians Shaped My View on the Transgender Bathroom Issue
How Lacanians Shaped My View on the Transgender Bathroom Issue
It’s about doors and what lies beyond them
Douglas Giles, PhD
Nov 29, 2024
Equating Disruption for Expertise
Equating Disruption for Expertise
The rise of impractical utilitarianism
Sasha Zeiger
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The Essence of Intelligence
The Essence of Intelligence
Analyzing the mechanism underlying analogy can help us understand intelligence at its most basic level
Martin Vidal
Nov 20, 2024
Quantum Mechanics After the Flapper Era
Quantum Mechanics After the Flapper Era
Eugene Wigner's powerful new, real-valued representation of the quantum state is the cornerstone of modern quantum optics and was born in…
Selena Routley
Nov 17, 2024
‘Unhoused, Conventionally Attractive, and People of Color’ — Why Do We Keep Having to Change Our…
‘Unhoused, Conventionally Attractive, and People of Color’ — Why Do We Keep Having to Change Our…
The connotations that get attached to words reflect a society’s systemic issues
Martin Vidal
Nov 13, 2024
The Manifesto of Wild Socialism: Beyond Capitalism and Ecological Socialism
Wild Socialism moves beyond the capitalist economy of limitless material production and reproduction to an alternative economy of the…
Glenn Parton
Nov 11, 2024
The Saturation Theory of Popularity
The Saturation Theory of Popularity
What goes up, must come down
Martin Vidal
Nov 5, 2024
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?
Selena Routley
Oct 26, 2024
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