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Dan Taylor15 minEssaysON CHESS Sweet lord, you play me false. (Miranda, in Shakespeare’s The Tempest) In the last year, chess has grown enormously in popularity...
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Matyáš Moravec and Peter West9 minEssaysIn Praise of Co-AuthoringThis article is written in the first-person plural. In other words, you’re going to see the word “we” a lot and you’ll be presented with...
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Amy Allen12 minEssaysWhy Psychoanalysis?Artwork by Joanna Borkowska Philosophy, according to classical metaphysicians, begins in wonder: why is there something rather than...
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Mladen Dolar14 minEssaysThe Future of Authority?Artwork by jc lenochan Hannah Arendt starts off her famous essay “What is authority?” by immediately translating the title question into...
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Joanna Borkowska7 minEssaysThe Art of NothingArtwork by Joanna Borkowska The idea of nothingness is one of the most confounding mysteries thinkers face. For millennia, the greatest...
Jana Bacevic16 minEssaysEpistemic Autonomy and the Free Nose Guy ProblemArtwork by Joanna Borkowska “Post-truth” seems to be among the few welcome casualties of the Covid-19 pandemic. Pronounced Oxford...
Veromi Arsiradam and Adam Ferner18 minEssays“Having” Children: The Choice between Procreation and AdoptionArtwork by Joanna Borkowska Over the last two decades, there has been increasing engagement in western analytic philosophy with ethical...
Bret W. Davis28 minEssaysNothing MattersArtwork by Joanna Borkowska Perhaps the essence of nihilism consists in not taking the question of the nothing seriously. — Martin...