Ego Trick up for award
THE EGO TRICK ON PRIZE SHORTLIST. The Ego Trick has been shortlisted for the Transmission Prize for the Communication of[…]
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Think there’s too much excess at Christmas?
Christmas Day lunch is the ideal target for the newest but already most tedious Christmas tradition of them all: the ritual moan about the terrible excess and waste. You know, all that money spent on too much food, of which too much is eaten, too much is thrown away and too much is bad for you. I’ve been as guilty of this as the next party hat refusenik. Yet I wonder whether the Yuletide vices we loathe are just the shadows cast by the festive virtues, and we can totally escape the dark side only by destroying the splendours that block the light.
ReadAre men from Mars and women from Venus?
If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, that would explain why philosophy so often reads like Martian. Both in the UK and the US, women account for only around a fifth of philosophers in the academy, fewer than in most comparable disciplines. Does this suggest there is something essentially masculine about philosophy, that cold, hard logic comes much more naturally to the less touchy-feely sex?
ReadReview: Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb overstates his case, committing errors he attributes to others. His overconfidence, ironically, makes his arguments more fragile to refutation than they needed to be. This is a shame, because his book is full of important warnings and insights.
ReadWith Good Reason: a debate on the foundations of ethics
DEBATE ON GOD & ETHICS – LSE, LONDON 6 DECEMBER Took part in a discussion with Canon Angus Ritchie and[…]
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