Matthew DavidinEmbodying Philosophy·1 day agoMusings on Critical Thinking vs RhetoricDiscovering the Truth — Critical thinking is an activity in which we engage our rational mind in. It is seemingly composed of two ways of questioning — closed questioning, and open questioning. Closed questions are questions that can be answered by observations and calculations. For example, you can ask, “How big is this computer…Philosophy4 min read
IndefinableMind.com·15 hours agoINTENT VS ACTIONYou can find more free articles and similarly themed free fiction at indefinablemind.com This is an article about what matters most: what someone does, or the intentions that drove them to do it — and I’m going to say right from the beginning that I believe it is the intention…Philosophy5 min read
INTELLCATION·1 day ago4 Kinds of People and How Some Could End the WorldAre we witnessing the end of humanity? There are many factors I could go into, but I won’t. This post isn’t a talk about why society might end but who might end it. Everyone knows what’s happening in the world and its descent into wars, disease, famine, poverty, sexism, and…Philosophy4 min read
Emily Alexandra·1 day agoBack on My Mojo?Hey…it’s been a while since I’ve last written an article about me running out of ideas, hasn’t it? …Writing Life3 min read
Mr Nemo·2 days agoTHE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #27–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview II: Solving The Mind-Body Problem.By Robert Hanna *** This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also…Philosophy10 min read
Farhadfaizee·3 days agoDoes Maturity Depend on Age?Can you be more mature than someone older than you? — The picture of the white-bearded, and rough-looking old man sitting on a chair, and smoking a cigar while pondering, or that of a shriveled old woman slowly walking across the street while leaning on a cane produces an image of wisdom and maturity in our mind. …Life Lessons5 min read
Prabhat·5 days agoCurious Case of Old AgeWhen Einstein came up with special relativity in 1905, he faced much criticism from absolutely everybody. And this makes sense because now fictional writers are writing research articles and saying that time is not absolute. …Philosophy Of Mind2 min read
JorvaninQasir·Jun 22How to Deal with Our Thoughts — The Dichotomy of ControlMake the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens — Epictetus. — Nowadays, the information has already spread rapidly and it’s really hard to filter whether the information is what we need or not. We can receive millions of information in a day although on the other hand, it is a good thing though in a positive way. But if we can…Stoicism4 min read
Dustin ArandinFuck Niches·Jun 22We Know Ourselves Through OthersHow Descartes got epistemology backward — The French philosopher Rene Descartes famously grounded his theory of knowledge in the basic assumption cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Descartes’ point was that, while he could imagine himself without his body, he could not imagine himself without his mind. …Philosophy3 min read
