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The Six Habits of Highly Empathic People
Rationally Speaking | Official Podcast of New York City Skeptics - Current Episodes - RS21 - Joshua Knobe on Experimental Philosophy
Our guest, Joshua Knobe, is a philosopher interested in cognitive science, so interested, in fact, that he has contributed to establishing a whole new branch of inquiry known as experimental philosophy — and he plausibly claims that the name is not actually an oxymoron! The idea is summarized in this way on one of the major web sites devoted to the enterprise: "Experimental philosophy, called x-phi for short, is a new philosophical movement that supplements the traditional tools of analytic philosophy with the scientific methods of cognitive science. So experimental philosophers actually go out and run systematic experiments aimed at understanding how people ordinarily think about the issues at the foundation of the philosophical discussion.” Joshua Knobe is an assistant professor at Yale University, affiliated both with the Program in Cognitive Science and the Department of Philosophy.TED
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. A robot walks into a bar and says, “I’ll have a screwdriver.” A bad joke, indeed.
The Future of Moral Machines - NYTimes.com
Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist and the author of "Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age" and "Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take it Back."
Are jobs obsolete? - CNN.com
The myth of closure - The Boston Globe
Such references make psychological closure seem like a fact of life. But according to a new book, closure is something else: a myth.
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The great moral philosopher Jeremy Bentham, founder of utilitarianism, famously said,'The question is not, "Can they reason?"
Richard Dawkins on vivisection: "But can they suffer?" - Boing Boing
Dangerous Minds | Albert Einstein: Why Socialism?
Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism?rights, law & justice
existentialism
It was in sometime in the ’80s when I heard someone on the radio talking about Clint Eastwood’s 1980 movie “Bronco Billy.”
French Theory in America - Stanley Fish - Think Again - Opinion - New York Times Blog
Ars' science staff loves the Digital Object Identifier system that's used for scientific publications. Each paper gets its own unique ID, and plugging that into the doi.org site will resolve it to the paper, even if the original journal changes its name, moves the paper to a new URL, or what have you. Aside from helping one find an original research paper, the DOI is powerful as a tool for finding related information.
Multiple initiatives vie to give scientists unique IDs - Ars Technica
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