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Welcome to /r/philosophy! Check out our rules and guidelines here. [June 1 2024 Update]

created by BernardJOrtcutt on 01/06/2024 at 19:24 UTC - 25 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

/r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 03, 2025

created by BernardJOrtcutt on 03/02/2025 at 14:00 UTC - 8 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

Philosophy and Hope | The use of philosophy lies not in being deeper than science, but in being truer than theology — not in its bearing on action, but in its bearing on religion. It does not give us guidance. It gives us hope.

created by ThePhilosopher1923 on 04/02/2025 at 06:47 UTC - 10 upvotes (https, www.thephilosopher1923.org)

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“The idea of a unified self is an illusion.” | Sam Harris debates Roger Penrose on the nature of consciousness.

created by IAI_Admin on 03/02/2025 at 10:54 UTC - 174 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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The Principle of Sufficient Reason is Self-Evident and its Criticisms are Self-Defeating (a case for the PSR being the fourth law of logic)

created by contractualist on 01/02/2025 at 22:13 UTC - 23 upvotes (https, neonomos.substack.com)

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Propositional Interpretability in Artificial Intelligence

created by F0urLeafCl0ver on 01/02/2025 at 11:52 UTC - 17 upvotes (https, arxiv.org)

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Nietzsche argues that complaining is one of the tools the weak use to "enjoy an intoxicating sense of power" - but it's not real power, it's imaginary. The strong don't complain; they change things

created by WeltgeistYT on 31/01/2025 at 17:02 UTC - 573 upvotes (https, youtu.be)

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Logic has no foundation - except in metaphysics. Hegel explains why.

created by IAI_Admin on 31/01/2025 at 10:50 UTC - 104 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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The Veil of Perception for Direct Realists - Why Indirect Realism Doesn't Have a Unique Problem

created by SilasTheSavage on 30/01/2025 at 16:03 UTC - 11 upvotes (https, open.substack.com)

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Paul Forrester: Locke and George on Original Acquisition

created by Plupsnup on 30/01/2025 at 11:07 UTC - 23 upvotes (https, philarchive.org)

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The philosophy of Simone Weil: "Not to accept an event in the world is to wish the world did not exist."

created by parvusignis on 29/01/2025 at 18:32 UTC - 153 upvotes (https, youtu.be)

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Time is real because we experience it. | Hegel’s logic suggests that any denial of its reality must fall into self-contradiction.

created by IAI_Admin on 29/01/2025 at 09:39 UTC - 110 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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Life as a 'Non-Standard' Narrative | By questioning the default story form, we question the default views on what kinds of lives we’ve been trained to find satisfying.

created by ThePhilosopher1923 on 28/01/2025 at 06:24 UTC - 43 upvotes (https, www.thephilosopher1923.org)

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Why a Communist Should Assume Life Is Hell - The Philosophical Salon

created by Julinyas on 29/01/2025 at 10:59 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, thephilosophicalsalon.com)

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We cannot fully know the universe from within it. | Even with access to all observations from all possible perspectives, the true structure of the universe remains unknowable, since general relativity allows for multiple indistinguishable spacetimes.

created by IAI_Admin on 27/01/2025 at 10:04 UTC - 198 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr

created by ddgr815 on 27/01/2025 at 16:57 UTC - 23 upvotes (https, aeon.co)

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/r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | January 27, 2025

created by BernardJOrtcutt on 27/01/2025 at 14:00 UTC - 12 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

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Why and How Abstract Objects Exist (The nature of thoughts as philosophy's fundamental unit of analysis)

created by contractualist on 26/01/2025 at 01:16 UTC - 45 upvotes (https, neonomos.substack.com)

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Philip Goff argues that the universe is directed toward the emergence of life

created by Huge_Pay8265 on 26/01/2025 at 13:55 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, youtu.be)

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Dopamine kills joy. | How Lockean micro-rewards rob us from living in the moment.

created by IAI_Admin on 22/01/2025 at 16:29 UTC - 939 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

74 comments

Axioms and Postulates as Speech Acts

created by Away-Farm7729 on 23/01/2025 at 05:15 UTC - 24 upvotes (https, link.springer.com)

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Truth isn’t universal. | How Mexican philosophy dismantles Trump-era absolutism with a perspectival view of truth grounded in lived experience.

created by IAI_Admin on 24/01/2025 at 09:39 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, iai.tv)

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Individual Rights and the Right to Abortion

created by DirtyOldPanties on 22/01/2025 at 22:28 UTC - 8 upvotes (https, newideal.aynrand.org)

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The Argument from Moral Knowledge Should not Convince any Atheist

created by SilasTheSavage on 23/01/2025 at 14:23 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, open.substack.com)

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Transcendental Pessimism | How philosophical pessimism may be seen as something more than a “mere” temperament or attitude – Ignacio L. Moya outlines the 4 key philosophical positions defended by those he calls “transcendental pessimists”

created by ThePhilosopher1923 on 22/01/2025 at 01:06 UTC - 12 upvotes (https, www.thephilosopher1923.org)

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