Philosophy Matters

@PhilosophyMttrs

articles, blog posts, calls for papers, conference announcements, memes on a variety of matters philosophical. and absolutely no cats.

Joined July 2014

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · 2 h

Plato, Aristotle & Other Greek Philosophers in Raphael’s Renaissance Masterpiece, The School of Athens … openculture.com/2025/07/plato-…

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · 5 h

How the illusion of self shapes your reality … bigthink.com/series/the-big…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. "The sense that we are a solid entity, an unchanging entity that exists someplace in our body and takes ownership of our body, and even ownership of our brain rather than being identical to our...

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · 8 h

The Right to Punish: Political Authority and International Criminal Justice … ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-ri…

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · 11 h

What Is Serendipity? … daily.jstor.org/what-is-serend…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. We often credit unexpected events to serendipity. But who amongst us knows The Three Princes of Serendip, the tale from which the word derives?

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · 14 h

Brian’s Metamorphosis: A Nietzschean Therapeutic Journey … thephilosophicalsalon.com/brians-metamor…

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · 17 h

Searching For Divine Love: On the Literary Landscape of Conversion Experiences … lithub.com/searching-for-…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. Last year, on an unseasonably warm November day, I went to mass. The idea came to me one afternoon, a random stranger knocking on the mind’s door. Not dangerous or unwelcome, but certainly unexpect…

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · 20 h

The limits of absence Why nothing is impossible … iai.tv/video/the-limi…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. From philosophy to science, metaphysics to psychology, the idea of 'nothing' is central to the universe, existence and experience as a whole. But the nature of 'nothing' is even more bewildering...

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · 23 h

6 Key Themes For Understanding Confucianism … thecollector.com/key-themes-und…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. Confucianism includes elements of religion and philosophy and amounts to a comprehensive guide to living. Here are its main themes.

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · Jul 24

No Justice, No Shade: the politics of sunlight … thebaffler.com/latest/no-just…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. Increasing shade cover is essential to surviving the next, hotter chapter of urban living. Why are cities so often opposed?

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · Jul 23

Are our thoughts ‘real’? Here’s what philosophy says … theconversation.com/are-our-though…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. René Descartes said the only thing we can be certain about is that we think. But what is the nature of thoughts? Philosophers have pondered this for centuries.

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · Jul 23

Interpreting the emotional lives of animals requires a subtler and more nuanced understanding of anthropomorphism … aeon.co/essays/when-is…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. Interpreting the emotional lives of animals requires a subtler and more nuanced understanding of anthropomorphism

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · Jul 23

The breakthrough proof bringing mathematics closer to a grand unified theory … nature.com/articles/d4158…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. Nature - The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore.

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · Jul 23

Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Masterpiece … literaryreview.co.uk/roots-of-the-r…

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · Jul 23

"Bronx Socrates" A Stand-Up Intellectual … prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. /PRNewswire/ -- Pollack Films announced today that their documentary film Bronx Socrates will make its world premiere on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, at the Long...

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · Jul 23

Cannabis as a Cultural Question: How are we ethically to evaluate the practice of getting stoned? … hedgehogreview.com/issues/questio…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. How are we ethically to evaluate the practice of getting stoned?

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · Jul 23

The Life of Seneca, the Stoic Philosopher Who Walked a Moral Tightrope … thecollector.com/seneca-roman-s…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. Philosopher or politician, sage or pragmatist? The life of Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger, tutor of Nero, highlights the brutality of imperial Rome.

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · Jul 23

Why The “We Evolved to Eat Meat” Argument Doesn’t Hold Up … nautil.us/the-we-evolved…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. The evolutionary story behind meat consumption is less convincing than it sounds

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · Jul 22

Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn … daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huy…

PhilosophyMttrs's tweet card. Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors.

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · Jul 22

Learn more about Christine Korsgaard on Normativity in the second part of this podcast by The Partially Examined Life … partiallyexaminedlife.com/2025/07/21/ep3…

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Philosophy Matters@PhilosophyMttrs · Jul 22

States of the Union: Descartes on the Passions … hopwag.podbean.com/e/hop-474-stat…

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