https://linkatopia.com/rob215/philosophy The 20 latest links tagged, "Philosophy" by Robert Giordano https://thethinkingshop.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwztOwBhD7ARIsAPDKnkDMpdEL7sLe3GAm4w4XArlyHhJw0hEu8D61OmVnd_YY6a2Its1T84saAq7zEALw_wcB 2024-04-09T23:54:44Z Critical thinking cards and posters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance 2021-01-14T20:24:06Z This is a general discussion, including some ideas by Karl Popper as well as others. I think it's important to begin here and discuss these topics... "Thus, tolerant group members face being ostracized for their toleration by intolerant members..." http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html 2019-07-03T00:34:56Z https://ryanholiday.net/a-stoic-guide-to-navigating-the-modern-workplace/ 2018-04-25T01:22:28Z http://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/10-schools-of-philosophy-and-why-you-should-know-them 2017-12-18T03:07:24Z https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes 2015-11-29T15:28:52Z http://daily.represent.us/matt-damon-blows-your-mind/ 2013-11-23T00:19:37Z Interesting video of Matt Damon reading a speech by Howard Zinn. The comments are interesting as well. http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/basiclawsofhumanstupidity.htm 2011-05-21T13:41:13Z Whether I considered a large university or a small college, a famous institution or an obscure one, I found that the same fraction Ï of the professors are stupid. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bnyhan/ 2011-04-19T11:46:48Z http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(novel) 2010-12-20T18:07:51Z Read this one. Great book!! Highly Recommended!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity 2009-12-22T15:43:17Z ...the short-term emergence of a self-improving artificial intelligence or superintelligence[1] that is so much beyond humans' present capabilities that it becomes impossible to understand it with present conceptions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Fromm 2009-06-01T21:18:57Z Really interesting philosopher who talks about three escape mechanisms people use to give up their freedom: conforming to society, submitting to authority, and destructiveness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology 2008-06-01T01:09:28Z Ontology studies being or existence and their basic categories and relationships, to determine what entities and what types of entities exist. Ontology thus has strong implications for conceptions of reality. http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath522/kmath522.htm 2007-08-18T13:54:09Z Great discussion of Poe's "Eureka". "Only when Hubble observed the dynamic expansion of the Universe did Einstein finally discard that prejudice and recognize the necessity of Poe's premise of a dynamic Universe with a finite past..." http://www.kipling.org.uk/kip_fra.htm 2007-07-30T21:19:44Z If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misanthropy 2007-04-26T03:45:13Z Interesting. Mentions Franz Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, Sherlock Holmes, and George Carlin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley 2007-03-12T22:17:43Z http://anti-state.com/forum/index.php?board=6 2006-12-11T23:21:56Z Interesting intellectual discussions about various forms of government. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/ 2006-05-10T06:00:22Z http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism 2006-05-10T11:30:16Z