9 Best Articles in 2020
Tim Urban
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1
Tim Urban
1391 saves · From 2015 · Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.
Guardian Tech
The meaning of life in a world without work
Guardian Tech
20+ min read · 734 saves · From 2017 · As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines ‘the useless class’ and a new quest for purpose
Brain Pickings
Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives
Brain Pickings
~13 min read · 674 saves · From 2015 · How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love.
New York Magazine
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
New York Magazine
20+ min read · 636 saves · From 2016 · An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
The New Yorker
The Man Who Thought Too Fast
The New Yorker
4 min read · 552 saves · May 4th · Anthony Gottlieb · Frank Ramsey—a philosopher, economist, and mathematician—was one of the greatest minds of the last century. Have we caught up with him yet?
Guardian Books
Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help
Guardian Books
4 min read · 508 saves · Apr 25th · Donald Robertson · The Meditations, by a Roman emperor who died in a plague named after him, has much to say about how to face fear, pain, anxiety and loss
The Atlantic
A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked
The Atlantic
8 min read · 495 saves · 2019-09-10 · For decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake.
The Guardian
How technology disrupted the truth
The Guardian
20+ min read · 448 saves · From 2016 · Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism
New Statesman
Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
New Statesman
8 min read · 423 saves · Sep 22nd · Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of…
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VentureBeat
How to create space for ethics in AI
VentureBeat
5 min read · 137 saves · Dec 19th · Carly Kind · We can't wait for tech regulation and competition reform to ensure ethical AI. We need to move forward now.
The Guardian
John Rawls: can liberalism's great philosopher come to the west's rescue again?
The Guardian
7 min read · 130 saves · Dec 20th · Julian Coman · John Rawls laid out his rules for a free and fair society exactly 50 years ago. In a polarised age, his bestselling book is again stirring debate
New Statesman
The four thinkers who reinvented philosophy
New Statesman
8 min read · 121 saves · Dec 11th · In 1936, writing from exile in Paris, the German-Jewish writer Walter Benjamin looked back at the storms of the recent past with clear-eyed despair. Everything had happened so quickly that it was…
New Scientist
Do we have free will or are all our decisions predetermined?
New Scientist
1 min read · 95 saves · Dec 10th · According to the laws of physics, everything we do follows inevitably from what happened before – and yet we’re convinced we can change the world. Can we?
Aeon+Psyche
The phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and embodiment in the world
Aeon+Psyche
~13 min read · 91 saves · Dec 7th · The phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty entwines us, via our own beating, pulsing, living bodies, in the lives of others
Aeon+Psyche
When does a human embryo have the moral status of a person?
Aeon+Psyche
6 min read · 85 saves · Dec 9th · Weighing up the science and the ethics of research on human embryos beyond its current 14-day restrictions
philosophersmag.com
The Lure of the Cartesian Sideshow
philosophersmag.com
9 min read · 84 saves · Dec 12th · Is there an internal mental world that is better known to you than the world outside? In his Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes famously de...
Aeon+Psyche
All’s not well that ends well – why Kant centred morality on motives, not outcomes
Aeon+Psyche
1 min read · 76 saves · Dec 17th · All’s not well that ends well: the political philosopher Michael Sandel discusses Kant’s counterintuitive view of morality
Prospect Magazine
He was Trotsky’s sidekick and Kahlo’s lover—Jean van Heijenoort is one of the strangest philosophers you’ve never…
Prospect Magazine
8 min read · 66 saves · Dec 8th · Until his sticky end in Mexico City, “Comrade Van” lived a chaotic and colourful life—one that contrasts with the orderly logical theories with which his name is still linked
Aeon+Psyche
When philosopher met king: on Plato’s Italian voyages
Aeon+Psyche
~11 min read · 60 saves · Dec 21st · Plato travelled to the decadent strife-torn court of Syracuse three times, risking his life to create a philosopher-king
