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“To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible.”
BY MARIA POPOVA
“The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is,” Iris Murdoch wrote in a 1970 masterpiece — a radical idea in her era and in her culture, counter to the notions of individualism and self-actualization so foundational to Western philosophy. Today, practices like metta meditation and mindfulness — practices anchored in the dissolution of the self, which remains the most challenging of human tasks even for the most devoted meditators among us, offering only transient glimpses of reality as it really is — flood the global mainstream, drawn from the groundwater of ancient Eastern philosophy and carried across the cultural gulf by a handful of pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s.
- “If I am right, neither the science of physics, nor any other science, could express all the truths; but the world could nonetheless be wholly physical” — Tim Crane (CEU) on the real lesson of Frank Jackson’s famous Mary example
- What do you know about Nísia Floresta? — Olivia Branscum (Columbia) speaks with Nastassja Pugliese (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro) about the 19th C. Brazilian philosopher, her philosophy of education and her enlightenment critique of slavery and colonialism
- “Given that academic ethics is about ‘ethical fine tuning’ and that the academy remains disconnected from the government, the potential for ethicists to respond to the climate emergency within the limits of their job description is somewhat limited” — Doug McConnell (Oxford) on the role of moral philosophers in regard to global warming
- “To prepare students to thrive in a world driven by science and policy, we need to incorporate philosophy in the classroom,” especially philosophy of science — so argue Nicholas Friedman (Stanford) & Stephen Esser (U. Penn) , who also provide links to lesson plans
- Quantum approaches to mathematical puzzles — it’s “not just fun and games, but has applications for quantum communication and quantum computing”
- “We need to devise ways of drawing more people voluntarily into the risk social contract, rather than pushing them ever further away” — Jonathan Wolff (Oxford) on fighting the pandemic
- Philosophy, disability, and social change — videos of several philosophers from a conference on the subject last month hosted by the University of Oxford