Philosophy in the News

• Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks, "The Challenge of Consciousness", The New York Review of Books, 11/21/2016

• "It is so important, then, that our children - all of our citizens - be encouraged to think critically rather than merely reproduce the information pushed towards them by proliferating media sources.

  "It is so important, too, that they learn to articulate their thoughts and provide justifications for them, and that they find ways of disagreeing without resorting to violence, whether verbal or physical."

  He added: "I believe that those virtues of reflection, of critical reasoning and of ethical enquiry are ones that have gained renewed urgency in the present moment, as humanity is faced with unprecedented challenges of a global kind - from climate change to mass migration."~President Michael D. Higgins

  • Joe Humphries, "Teach Philosophy to heal our 'post-truth' society, says President Higgins", The Irish Times, 11/19/2016

• We love what MIT is doing here, but NOTHING beats face-to-face conversations about philosophy with a philosophy instructor!
  • Office of Digital Learning, "Popular MITx philosophy MOOC introduces instructor grading", MIT News, 08/15/2016

• This is fun! 
  • MIT's Moral Machine

• Maria Popova, "How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently", Brain Pickings, 08/2016

• Ryan Holiday, "How Philosophy Can Change Your Life", Observer.com, 07/27/16

• Rachel Aviv, "The Philosopher of Feelings", The New Yorker, 07/25/16

• Joe Carmicheal, "How Theoretical Physics Finally Caught Up with Ancient Philosophy", Inverse, 06/28/16

• Michael P. Lynch, "The Philosophy of Privacy: Why Surveillance Reduces Us to Objects", The Guardian, 05/07/15

• Chris Knight, "I, for one, welcome our robot overlords: On Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ex Machina, and the future Turing Test", National Post, 05/01/15

• "The Muslim philosophers gave a more precise definition of philosophy and called it the ability "to know the reality of things as they are to the extent possible for human beings, and act accordingly.", Ibrahim Khalin
  • Ibrahim Khalin, "Three Reasons to Read Classical Muslim Philosophers", Daily Sabah, 05/01/15

• Nick Anderson, "Philosophy's Gender Bias: For Too Long, Scholars Say, Women Have Been Ignored", The Washington Post, 04/28/15

• 8-Bit Philosophy, "Does Science = Truth", The Escapist, 04/27/15

• Amy Whitworth, "Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers, by Costigan Bradatan", Times Higher Education, 04/23/15

•  The role of al-Ghazali in Western thought, with mention of Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Erasmus, "A Millennium-Old Argument", The Economist, 04/22/15

• Open Culture, "What is the Self?: Watch Philosophy Animals Narrated by Stephen Fry on Sartre, Descartes, & More", Open Culture, 04/22/15

• Another reason to study philosophy!
  • Alan Levinovitz, "The Logical Failures of Food Fads: Why Studying the Humanities Can Help You Live a Health Life", Slate, 04/21/15

• Tania Lombrozo, "Considering 'The Philosophy of the Web'", NPR.org, 04/20/15

• Gordon Graham, "Wittgenstein and Natural Religion", OUP Blog, 04/19/15

• David Brooks, "The Moral Bucket List", The New York Times, 04/11/15

• A psychologist argues that Nietzsche is better than any self-help book! 
  • Jared Keller, "The Psychology (and Philosophy) of 'No Regrets'", Pacific Standard, 04/17/15

• Avital Andrews, "The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The Philosopher Applying Kant and Plato To Contemporary Computer Science: Maya Krishnan", Pacific Standard, 04/14/15

• Seven professional philosophers reviewing seven movies! 
  • Julian Baggini, Christine Korsgaard, Ursula Coope, Peter Singer, Susan Haack, Kenneth Taylor, and Slovaj Zizek, "I watch therefore I am: seven movies that teach us key philosophy lessons", The Guardian, 04/14/15

• A poster with photos of famous philosophy majors (and almost majors)!

• Mark Adams, "Decoding Plato", Slate, 04/13/15

• Lawrence Berger, "Being There: Heidegger on Why Our Presence Matters", The New York Times, 03/30/15

• Marty Kaplan, "Wrestling with the Questions, and Why it Matters So Much", On Being, 03/07/15

• Colin Marshall, "Philosophers Drinking Coffee: The Excessive Habits of Kant, Voltaire, & Kierkegaard", Open Culture, 03/06/15

• A well-respected philosopher discusses depression. 
  • Colleen Flaherty, "Personal Philosophy", Inside Higher Ed, 02/25/15

• For those interested in personal identity and immortality!
  • Tim Wu, "How to Live Forever", The New Yorker, 02/22/15

• Susan Dominos, "How to Get a Job With a Philosophy Degree", The New York Times Magazine, 09/13/13