Tag: Philosophy
Can we upload our minds onto computers?
Is the singularity approaching? Science and philosophy have raised possible answers. We can now scan human brains on the levelContinue Reading
Life and Logic: “Hegel’s Concept of Life” by Karen Ng
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is one of philosophy’s giants, and his influence on the science of logic and self-consciousness can’tContinue Reading
Books about Nothing: On the death of the novel
What use do books have nowadays? In The Decline of the Novel, author Joseph Bottum paints a grim portrait. TheContinue Reading
An introduction to philosophy
Table of contents Ethics Classical ethics Christian and Medieval ethics Modern ethics Postmodern ethics Bioethics Meta-ethics (Metaethics) Epistemology Logic AestheticsContinue Reading
An introduction to ethics
Table of contents What is ethics? Meta-ethics (Metaethics) Applied ethics Normative ethics Reading Normative ethics Issues in normative ethics ConsequentialismContinue Reading
The epistemology and metaphysics of causality
The epistemology of causality There are two epistemic approaches to causal theory. Under a hypothetico-deductive account, we hypothesize causal relationshipsContinue Reading