Heathen’s Progress 14: Can it be rational for the religious to be non-rational?
In practice there is no neat distinction between the logical and the psychological. Those who attempt to use pure reason[…]
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Humanity 2.0
As homo sapiens develops more and more technologies for changing itself, what will, and should, the humans of the future look like? (Photo: (CC) Nat Ireland)
ReadThe Lust for Certainty
Do we suffer from a lust for certainty? This is an edited version of a talk given to a Sea of Faith Network conference in London earlier this year.
ReadSam Harris on Science and Morality
In the latest microphilosophy podcast I talk to Sam Harris about his claim in The Moral Landscape that science can[…]
ReadThe most human human?
Can artificial intelligence teach us about what it means to be human? That is the fascinating question behind Brian Christian’s recent book, The Most Human Human. In this programme, Julian Baggini is in conversation with Christian, recorded live at the Bristol Festival of Ideas at the Arnolfini Centre earlier this year.
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