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I wonder what this fellow makes of the 1930s; Moscow purges must be a puzzle—Spanish Flu maybe. Killing fields? Delayed reaction to the 1968 flu epidemic probably. Rwandan genocide — not too sure. Maybe an outbreak of chicken pox somewhere.

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Everybody in the world is brain damaged except me and my Twitter mates is quite the flex.

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

As a neurologist, it is now patently clear to me that the vast majority of people on the planet are suffering from neuroinflammation or brain damage (likely both)

The way people speak & behave has changed. Markedly so.

Whether irl, or via messaging/social media. It’s noticeable

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Cribs and Hunters

E. E. Sheng considers the meteoric rise of the notion of self-plagiarism.

https://t.co/bZR6OrKoH9

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Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.--Susan Sontag

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How consistent are YOUR beliefs? Take the Philosophical Health Check.

Think Again — free on the App Store:
https://t.co/MnDNy92uaa

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The average person holds 4.4 philosophical tensions out of a possible 15.

That's 4 pairs of beliefs pulling in opposite directions — like believing all killing is wrong while also believing some wars are just.

Almost nobody scores zero.

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It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.--John Stuart Mill

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The Robot Apocalypse is Already Here

But the robots are not what you think, argues Gabriele Contessa.

https://t.co/VNsF08mxz5

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Philosophical Malpractice

Daniel Kodsi and John Maier argue that academic philosophers have made serious errors in their approach to trans politics.

https://t.co/qigZbMXKcH

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Philosophy Experiment: Framing the Epidemic

Public health meets cognitive bias.
Are you a sure-thing saver or a gambler when lives are at stake?

https://t.co/m21XYdw6WN

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The Genesis of a Philosophical Myth

On Schopenhauer throwing a seamstress downstairs

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From the Archive (1998)

Ryle's Concept of Mind

One of the most influential books of the twentieth-century in the philosophy of mind is Gilbert Ryle's "The Concept of Mind" (1949, London: Hutcheson (all references are to this edition). [...]

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How loth were we to give up our pious belief in ghosts and witches, because we liked to persecute the one, and frighten ourselves to death with the other!--William Hazlitt

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Hyperintensionality: For or Against? Part I

Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate the nature and existence of hyperintensionality (Part I).

https://t.co/OnBTFVuSHk

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Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.--Edmund Husserl

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Are your moral instincts leading or following your reasoning?

Think Again — free on the App Store:
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37% say a private, consensual encounter between adult siblings is morally wrong.

But 66% say it bothers them.

Nearly double. The gap between moral reasoning and gut reaction is one of the most striking findings in moral psychology.

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[It would be worthwhile] to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world.--Bertrand Russell

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Older and Wiser?

Older and Wiser” is a common adage, but is it correct, asks Christine Overall.

https://t.co/s4ur8IMjcE

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An Air of Unreality

The Gazan genocide narrative is obviously false, argues Russell Blackford.

https://t.co/D6VOOxewCl