Philosophy - Rationale Magazine

10 Mar

Are our thoughts ‘real’?

10/03/2025
By Sam Baron
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You can doubt just about anything. But there’s one thing you can know for sure: you are having thoughts right now. This idea came to...

18 Dec

Philosophy & Psychology

Can you choose to believe something, just like that?

18/12/2024
By Mark Boespflug
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Some years ago, I was in a lively conversation with a software developer about arguments for and against God’s existence. After discuss...

16 Oct

Philosophy & Psychology

Are our choices pre-determined?

As I write these words, could I be writing something else? It seems intuitive to think I could. If I wanted to I could delete these wor...

27 Jun

Philosophy & Psychology

Michel Foucault’s philosophy still speaks to a world saturated with social media

Forty years after his death in Paris on June 25, 1984, many of Michel Foucault’s once radical ideas now seem self-evident. Even critics...

24 Jun

Philosophy & Psychology

How asking the right question opens the path to deep knowledge

According to all the advice on how to win friends and influence people, I should start this essay by explaining how the following words...

14 Jan

Philosophy & Psychology

Talking together in the ‘big tent’ of free speech

14/01/2024
By John Corvino
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People often extol the virtue of open-mindedness, but can there be too much of a good thing? As a college dean, I regularly o...

25 Dec

History

Marcus Aurelius and stoic politics

31/01/2024
By Paul Monk
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Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE) was one of the so-called Five Good Emperors of the Roman Empire – and the last of them – and a stoic philo...

20 Dec

Science & Health

Intellectual humility is a key ingredient for scientific progress

20/12/2023
By Michael Dickson
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The virtue of intellectual humility is getting a lot of attention. It’s heralded as a part of wisdom, an aid to self-improvem...

04 Dec

Philosophy & Psychology

What philosophers say on the question of having children

04/12/2023
By Lena Springer
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Parenthood has traditionally been considered the normal outcome of growing up – a side-effect of reaching maturity. Across Europe and t...

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 ...

11 Apr

Philosophy & Psychology

Je Suis Mill

14/01/2024
By Paul Monk
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This is an edited extract from a dinner speech to the Liberal Club of the University of Melbourne, delivered on 10 December 2021 Abo...

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