#Philosophy

Articles (16)

• 🇺🇸 The team behind 1000xResist is making a game about convincing an AI that it isn’t human — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  When the team at indie studio Sunset Visitor were wrapping up their critically acclaimed first game, 1000xResist, it wasn't long before they started thinking about what they'd tackle next. According t...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Video Game Development, #Science Fiction
• 🇬🇧 How Jürgen Habermas helped me cope with my wife’s death | Letters — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p><strong>Neil Wilkof</strong> responds to the obituary of the German philosopher and social theorist. Plus a letter from <strong>Neil Blackshaw</strong> </p><p>Compliments to Stuart Jeffries for his...

  Related: #Grief
• 🇺🇸 Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  I admit, this is an innovation I did not see coming: Silicon Valley has invented the philosophical zombie from the classic thought experiment "lol how crazy would it be if there were a philosophical z...

  Related: #Technology Critique
• 🇬🇧 Habermas and the lessons of history | Brief letters — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Political repetition | Lakes v loughs | Weighty fruit | First fibs </p><p>One thing missing from most of the commentaries following the death of Jürgen Habermas (<a href="https://www.theguardian.co...

  Related: #History
• 🇬🇧 Jürgen Habermas obituary — 15/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Philosopher and social theorist who advocated a new direction for German thought after the horrors of Nazi rule</p><p>The philosopher, social theorist and defender of humane Enlightenment values Jü...

  Related: #Obituary
• 🇬🇧 German philosopher and social critic Jürgen Habermas dies at 96 — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  One the most influential thinkers in post-war Germany, he linked philosophy and political action throughout his life.

  Related: #Intellectual Legacy
• 🇺🇸 Is the Universe Defective? Part 1: The Good Old Days — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Every time you flip a light switch, or check the time, or feel the sodium ions wiggling in your brain — don’t think about that one too much—you’re assuming something fundamental. You’re assuming the u...

  Related: #Cosmology
• 🇬🇧 Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96 — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Habermas’ political consensus-building theory argued formation of public opinion vital for democracies to survive</p><p>The influential German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas has died a...

  Related: #Sociology, #Obituary
• 🇺🇸 Influential German philosopher J&uuml;rgen Habermas dies at 96 — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world's most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was ...

  Related: #Obituary
• 🇺🇸 Habermas, the philosopher who shaped Germany’s post-war conscience — 14/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Post-war Germany
• 🇺🇸 Peter Thiel brings his lectures on the Antichrist to the Vatican's doorstep — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  The invitation-only conference in Rome, from Sunday to Wednesday, has proven so controversial that the Catholic universities initially associated with it have all denied official involvement.

  Related: #Religion, #Technology
• 🇬🇧 Light and Thread by Han Kang review – a tantalising book of reflections — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>This prose work from the Nobel literature winner opens up her novels and offers beautiful imagery</p><p>When Korean novelist Han Kang won the Nobel prize in&nbsp;literature in 2024, the committee p...

  Related: #Literature
• 🇺🇸 ‘Group: The Schopenhauer Effect’ Review: The Art of Being Patient — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Group therapy sessions are dramatized in this absorbing film from the writer-director Alexis Lloyd.

  Related: #Film Critique
• 🇺🇸 Why You Should Read Adam Smith — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  The news is good. Really.

  Related: #Economics
• 🇺🇸 George Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sin — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  The acclaimed writer discusses the limits of kindness and the foundations of sin.

  Related: #Literature, #Ethics
• 🇺🇸 "My body was dying, and it was taking me with it," says Rushdie — 05/02/2026 [USA]

  "There was nothing supernatural about it. No 'tunnel of light.' No feeling of rising out of my body," says Salman Rushdie, describing his near-death experience in 2022 in his book "Knife."

  Related: #Literature, #Survival