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philosophybits:“When you fully enter the realm of...

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2025/09/28

philosophybits: “When you fully enter the realm of love, this broken world becomes rich and beautiful, and consists solely of opportunities for love.” — Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love The post philosophybits: “When you fully enter the realm of love, this broken world becomes rich and… appeared first on Philosophy News.

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thirdity: “Everything is repeated, in a circle....

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2025/09/28

thirdity: “Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn’t exist. It’s the permutations that matter.” — Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum The post thirdity: “Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it… appeared first on Philosophy News.

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philosophybits: “To be oppressed means that you...

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2025/09/28

philosophybits: “To be oppressed means that you already exist as a subject of some kind, you are there as the visible and oppressed other for the master subject as a possible or potential subject. But to be unreal is something else again. For to be oppressed one must first become intelligible. To find that one is fundamentally unintelligible (indeed, that the laws of culture and of language find one to be an impossibility) is to find that one has not yet achieved access to the human. It is to find

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“Somebody remarked: “I can tell by my own reaction to...

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2025/09/28

“Somebody remarked: “I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful.” But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible. — Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark

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philosophybits: “He that is kind is free, though he...

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2025/09/27

philosophybits: “He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.” — Augustine, The City of God The post philosophybits: “He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though… appeared first on Philosophy News.

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“The most dangerous temptation: to be like nothing at...

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2025/09/27

“The most dangerous temptation: to be like nothing at all.” - Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1942 The post “The most dangerous temptation: to be like nothing at all.” appeared first on Philosophy News.

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When you do something you’ve done thousands of times...

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2025/09/27

suliqyre:When you do something you’ve done thousands of times before, you do it without thinking. Your past experience of doing the same actions over and over has accumulated into a kind of memory that does not require conscious thought.If someone comes along and asks you how to do what you’re doing, you might be able to come up with a list of actions they should follow. But when you do the thing, you do not follow this list or any list at all. Nothing like this is necessary for you to access your

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philosophybits: “We should not allow into our minds...

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2025/09/27

philosophybits: “We should not allow into our minds the conviction that argumentation has nothing sound about it; much rather we should believe that it is we who are not yet sound and that we must take courage and be eager to attain soundness…” — Plato, Phaedo The post philosophybits: “We should not allow into our minds the conviction that argumentation has nothing… appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Epistemology of Geometry

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2025/09/27

[Revised entry by Jeremy Gray and José Ferreirós on September 26, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Geometrical knowledge typically concerns two kinds of things: theoretical or abstract knowledge contained in the definitions, axioms, theorems, and proofs in a system of geometry; and some knowledge of the external world, such as is expressed in terms […] The post Epistemology of Geometry appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Recently Published Book Spotlight: Herald of a...

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2025/09/27

This blog post is adapted from Emily Herring’s biography of Henri Bergson, Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People (Basic Books, 2024). One day in the mid-1910s, as Henri Bergson was gathering his things after lecturing to a packed room at the Collège de France in Paris, a woman […] The post Recently Published Book Spotlight: Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Recently

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Bohmian Mechanics

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2025/09/20

[Revised entry by Sheldon Goldstein on September 20, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Bohmian mechanics, which is also called the de Broglie-Bohm theory, the pilot-wave model, and the causal interpretation of quantum mechanics, is a version of quantum theory discovered by Louis de Broglie in 1927 and rediscovered by David Bohm in 1952. It […]The post Bohmian Mechanics appeared first on Philosophy News.

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What makes a good job for a poet? For Constantine...

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2025/09/20

What makes a good job for a poet? For Constantine Cavafy, a post at the Department of Irrigation Service gave him ample free time The post What makes a good job for a poet? For Constantine Cavafy, a post at the Department of Irrigation Service gave him ample free time appeared first on Philosophy News.

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“The suburban novel’s concerns — conformity,...

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2025/09/20

“The suburban novel’s concerns — conformity, consumerism, lack of fulfillment among plenty — have come to feel dated, almost quaint” The post “The suburban novel’s concerns — conformity, consumerism, lack of fulfillment among plenty — have come to feel dated, almost quaint” appeared first on Philosophy News.

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To fend off the creeping prevalence of AI-written...

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2025/09/20

To fend off the creeping prevalence of AI-written prose, one must adopt a new kind of literacy, an adaptive practice of bullshit detection The post To fend off the creeping prevalence of AI-written prose, one must adopt a new kind of literacy, an adaptive practice of bullshit detection appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Qualia

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2025/09/20

[Revised entry by Michael Tye on September 19, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Feelings and experiences vary widely. For example, I run my fingers over sandpaper, smell a skunk, feel a sharp pain in my finger, seem to see bright purple, become extremely angry. In each of these cases, I am the subject of […] The post Qualia appeared first on Philosophy News.

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The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts,...

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2025/09/20

2025.09.9 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Elliott Sober, The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences, and Probabilities, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 257pp., $26.99 (pbk) $85.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781009376013. Reviewed by Christopher H. Pearson, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville For over 4 decades, Elliott Sober has been examining and illuminating philosophical aspects of evolutionary theory. His recent book, The Philosophy of Evolutionary

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Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female...

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2025/09/20

2025.09.8 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Philip J. Ivanhoe and Hwa Yeong Wang, Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage: Essential Writings of Im Yungjidang and Gang Jeongildang, Oxford University Press, 2023, 304 pp., $30.99 (pbk) ISBN 9780197508695. Reviewed by Erin M. Cline, Georgetown University “Are there any lineages of women philosophers in Confucianism?” When students in my Chinese Philosophy classes ask this question, I enjoy answering

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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2025/09/20

[Revised entry by Paul Redding on September 19, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Along with J.G. Fichte and, at least in his early work, F.W.J. von Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831) belongs to the period of German idealism in the decades following Kant. The most systematic of the idealists, Hegel attempted, […] The post Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Desiderius Erasmus

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2025/09/20

[Revised entry by Erika Rummel and Eric MacPhail on September 19, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469 – 1536) was not a systematic philosopher although we discern in the large body of his writings a certain Erasmian habit of mind. He often reflected on subjects that invite philosophical inquiry: the […] The post Desiderius Erasmus appeared first on Philosophy News.

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philosophybits: “Talent is perhaps nothing other than...

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2025/09/19

philosophybits: “Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.” — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia The post philosophybits: “Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.” — Theodor W…. appeared first on Philosophy News.

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