Today I had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Barker, editor of the Fremantle Shipping News, to chat about technology and the human condition. We went deep!
Philosophy
Human experience must be factored into science. The authors of a new manifesto argue why.
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Matt Gallagher watched Guardian columnist George Monbiot make the case for a 'politics of belonging' – but how to get there?
This text is not about Baby Reindeer, Netflix’s latest hit. It’s about one of the most perverse dimensions of sanism and anti-madness: the exploitation of madness as an edifying aesthetic resource. It is also about the obsolescence of narratives centered on the uncritical perspective of the traditional agent of the banality of evil, the mediocre […]
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
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Reflections on a philosopher who believed we can solve the problem of consciousness.
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A glimpse of a mind jammed to the rafters with ideas.
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An open invitation to the Fremantle launch ...
A talk to the Economic Society of Australia: Monsters in the Machine, Technology, Growth & Human Flourishing An Author Talk with Goldfields Libraries An appearance on the Breaking the Spell podcast
As philosopher and broadcaster Scott Stephens suggests in his introduction to Justice and Hope, Raimond Gaita’s principal contribution to the practice of moral philosophy is to have opened it up to readers and audiences that wouldn’t usually encounter it. Most notably in his memoir Romulus, My Father (1998), but also in A Common Humanity (2000) […]