Philosophy
Brian Sholis and
Philosophy
On Bullshit
The document discusses the nature and prevalence of bullshit, distinguishing it from lying and exploring its connection to skepticism and the pursuit of personal sincerity.
www2.csudh.eduHow could gaining knowledge amount to anything other than discovering what was already there? How could the truth of a statement or a theory be anything but its correspondence to facts that were fixed before we started investigating them?
Some philosophers have argued that, despite widespread intuitions to the contrary, knowledge is not merely a... See more
Some philosophers have argued that, despite widespread intuitions to the contrary, knowledge is not merely a... See more
Céline Henne • Frameworks
The more I think about it, the more I think this is why so many of us, myself included, are attracted to data-based optimization. We’re painfully aware that we are vulnerable, fallible creatures. Our shame about that is reflected in Western religious traditions: The Bible tells us that upon first creating the world, God “saw that it was good,” but... See more
You can’t optimize your way to being a good person
TRUSTING A TRUSTLESS NETWORK. The Paradoxes of Trust in Blockchain Technology
JENA MARIE ESPELITAassociazioneblockchain.it
We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time: Violinist Natalie Hodges on the Poetic Science of Sound and Feeling
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work – The Marginalian
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org"My God, I Talk Too Much" | Slavoj Žižek on Sex, Trump, and Freedom
youtube.comWho Am I?
Look deep into the recesses of your being, and identify everything you think makes you, you.
Traverse all your mind’s pathways, and locate every desire and thought. Summon every opinion and belief, every interest and passion, and interrogate each and every one, relentlessly.
Ask them where they came from, and who planted them. Ask them if... See more
Look deep into the recesses of your being, and identify everything you think makes you, you.
Traverse all your mind’s pathways, and locate every desire and thought. Summon every opinion and belief, every interest and passion, and interrogate each and every one, relentlessly.
Ask them where they came from, and who planted them. Ask them if... See more
The Pursuit
The unabated “creative destruction” of one kind of capital after another has only further increased the wealth of a few and done nothing to emancipate the overall collective creative spirit, which has remained stagnant. Today, almost every artistic effort inevitably (perhaps unknowingly) reinscribes the values of the ruling capitalist class.