Jack Dikian - Rationale Magazine

08 Jul

Lee Kuan Yew’s insight into the fall of democracies

08/07/2025
By Jack Dikian
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Long before Australia saw four sitting prime ministers deposed by their own parties between 2010 and 2018, before the United Kingdom sa...

22 Apr

Philosophy & Psychology

Pauli, Freud and Jung: A revolution in the world of psychology

22/04/2025
By Jack Dikian
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By the end of 1930, Austrian-born theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli was experiencing a cascade of troubles that had begun alm...

09 Aug

Philosophy & Psychology

What 17th-century philosophy can tell us about artificial intelligence

11/07/2024
By Jack Dikian
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René Descartes' interests extended to diverse subjects, and one of the most striking subjects he studied was machine thinking. That he ...

21 Jun

Science & Health

Reacting to pandemics

21/06/2023
By Jack Dikian
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The New Testament (Matthew 11:29) describes the relationship we have – or should have – with Jesus as a kind of work. “Take my y...

01 May

Philosophy & Psychology

A genealogy of panic disorder in the 20th century

01/05/2023
By Jack Dikian
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One of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne, was a thinker noted for merging casual anecdot...

03 Mar

Science & Health

The future role of human judgement

06/03/2023
By Jack Dikian
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There is an old Chinese curse, “May you live in an interesting age.” It continues: “They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they ...

21 Feb

Philosophy & Psychology

When faith and reality collide in pandemics

22/07/2022
By Jack Dikian
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The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346-53. It is the m...

01 Dec

Philosophy & Psychology

On dying

09/09/2022
By Jack Dikian
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Philosophy begins with the death of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates. But, as we know, he goes to his death with equanimity – wit...

08 Jun

Philosophy & Psychology

The lost notebooks: Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s extraordinary story

02/10/2021
By Jack Dikian
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Srinivasa Ramanujan's story is one of the great romantic tales of mathematics. It is an account of triumph and tragedy, of a man of gen...

05 Dec

Science & Health

Are conspiracy theories just part of our evolutionary history?

09/09/2022
By Jack Dikian
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Conspiracy theories and medical misinformation about the coronavirus started to spread through social media sites almost immediately af...

Posts by Jack Dikian

About Jack Dikian

Lee Kuan Yew’s insight into the fall of democracies

Pauli, Freud and Jung: A revolution in the world of psychology

What 17th-century philosophy can tell us about artificial intelligence

Reacting to pandemics

A genealogy of panic disorder in the 20th century

The future role of human judgement

When faith and reality collide in pandemics

On dying

The lost notebooks: Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s extraordinary story

Are conspiracy theories just part of our evolutionary history?