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What the Stoics meant by ‘indifferent’, seen from a night shift
Health, life and death are 'indifferents' in Stoic ethics. That does not mean they don't matter, and getting the difference right changes how the Stoics read at a bedside.
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What is aesthetics? A beginner’s guide
Six questions that make up the philosophy of beauty and art, explained for someone meeting them for the first time, with a restorer's view of why they matter.
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Where there’s smoke: the Cārvāka challenge to inference, and why it still matters
India's materialists asked how anyone could know that smoke always means fire. Their opponents' answers, and Hume's later version of the question, show what a sceptical empiricism can and cannot do.
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Philosophy of religion: a beginner’s guide to the big arguments
What philosophers of religion actually do, the main arguments for and against God, and the questions that open up when you look beyond a single tradition, written for believers, doubters and the merely curious.
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Why does sad art feel good? What the rasa theorists worked out
A Sanskrit argument that ran for two centuries gives the most careful answer I know to the old puzzle of enjoying grief on the stage.
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The mind–body problem: a beginner’s guide
How can a thought move an arm? The main answers, from Descartes and Elisabeth to functionalism, with stops in classical India and eighteenth-century Wittenberg.
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Logic for beginners: what makes an argument valid
A first introduction to the single most useful idea in logic, with the tests you can use on any argument and the mistakes almost everyone makes.
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Innocent until proven false: Kumārila on why a cognition needs no certificate
The Mīmāṃsā doctrine of intrinsic validity is usually filed under scripture. It is first of all a general theory of knowledge, and a strong one.
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What is epistemology? A beginner’s guide to the theory of knowledge
Four questions, two ways of asking them, and why a lucky guess is the best place to start.
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