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April 19, 2016
in Health & Medicine, Humanities, Philosophy, Science, Technology

What is a Database of Dreams?

April 19, 2016
in Health & Medicine, Humanities, Philosophy, Science, Technology

Rebecca Lemov— A little-known turning point in the prosecution of World War II war crimes occurred in 1945 at Nuremberg. Sitting on his prison cot was Hermann Göring, recently captured Reichsfeldmarschall, founder of the Sturmabteilung (SA), creator of the first concentration camps, and a man who, not many weeks before,

December 28, 2011
in History, Philosophy

Nigel Warburton on René Descartes

December 28, 2011
in History, Philosophy

An excerpt from Nigel Warburton’s A Little History of Philosophy, a lively and accessible introduction to Western philosophy, bringing the ideas of the world’s greatest thinkers into focus. from Socrates’ questions about reality to Peter Singer’s thinking on the moral status of animals in our own times. Nigel Warburton— You