Review – Humanity 2.0
What does it mean to be human? To have the capacity to ask the question, perhaps. However smart a chimp[…]
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The Shrink & The Sage: Work
There is nothing valuable in work per se. Indeed, Bertrand Russell went so far as to claim that “immense harm[…]
ReadThe Culture Show – BBC Two
I presented a video essay on 1984 for Friday’s show (21 October). Available to watch again here until Friday.
ReadSam Harris on Science and Morality
In the latest microphilosophy podcast I talk to Sam Harris about his claim in The Moral Landscape that science can[…]
ReadHeathen’s Progress 4: The autonomy of science
Last week, I argued that although science and religion clearly can be compatible, they often make for far less comfortable[…]
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