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What Was Democracy? | The Nation - 0 views
Who Gets to Graduate? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
The kings of concentration - Blue Sky Innovation - 0 views
Neuroaesthetics | The Scientist Magazine® - 0 views
Is Philosophy Obsolete? - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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It’s in terms of our increased coherence that the measure of progress has to be taken, not in terms suitable for evaluating science or literature. We lead conceptually compartmentalized lives, our points of view balkanized so that we can live happily with our internal tensions and contradictions, many of the borders fortified by unexamined presumptions. It’s the job of philosophy to undermine that happiness, and it’s been at it ever since the Athenians showed their gratitude to Socrates for services rendered by offering him a cupful of hemlock.
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the philosopher Wilfrid Sellars agrees that the proper agenda of philosophy lies in mediating among simultaneously held points of view with the aim of integrating them into a coherent whole.
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We can’t give up on either of the two images of us-in-the-world without destroying the other. They are codependent even when there are issues between them—which is beginning to make philosophy sound like a couples therapist.
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Why Nothing Is Truly Alive - NYTimes.com - 0 views
The Philosophy of 'Her' - NYTimes.com - 0 views
ADHD Does Not Exist | New Republic - 0 views
Social Animals | The Weekly Standard - 0 views
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