Think About It

Latest episodes of the podcast Philosophy News

• “What afflicts literature, more than book banning, is this rapid loss of the ability to read for deeper meanings, to grasp subtlety, and to understand ambiguity”
• Henri Bergson’s present-day obscurity is inversely proportionate to his contemporaneous fame. He transformed not just philosophy but literature and art
• Evgeny Morozov envisions a futuristic socialist technology-policy that emphasizes “human enhancement” — not “human augmentation”
• Political tribes are predictable
• APA Member Interview: Ding
• Meet the APA: Thom Brooks
• Epistemology
• Charles Taylor synthesizes moral reflection and intellectual history. His writing is difficult to follow, but worth trying
• “Brevity has never been a quality of mine,” wrote Oliver Sacks. Indeed, excess was a hallmark of his life and his literary style
• F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon is “the most promising — and the most disappointing — fragment in American fiction”