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Jean-Paul Sartre's political philosophy is falsely identified as 'existential Marxism', when in reality it aligns with anarchism.| IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
Jean-Paul Sartre's political philosophy is falsely identified as 'existential Marxism', when in reality it aligns with anarchism.| IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
Scientists and philosophers have fallen for a seductive buzzword: “emergence.” It’s invoked to explain life, consciousness, and the flow of time: when simple parts combine, it is claimed, they sometimes produce new entities with powers their parts could never predict. But philosopher John Heil calls this out as an intellectual sleight of hand. “Emergence,” he argues, doesn’t reveal hidden truths—it masks our ignorance, mistaking gaps in explanation for gaps in reality. It’s ti...| IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
Without philosophical thought, Einstein claimed he “would have contributed nothing to science.” And yet, modern science popularizers like Neil deGrasse Tyson dismiss philosophy as largely irrelevant to scientific inquiry. In this article, philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci sides with Einstein and argues for the importance of philosophy in making true scientific progress. Pigliucci shows how Einstein’s sophisticated philosophy, which transcended the rationalism-empiricism dichot...| IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
The spirit of rebellion stirs. From Musk and Milei wielding chainsaws to Trump hanging his police mugshot outside the Oval Office, populists are embracing rebel aesthetics. Meanwhile, quite different sorts of rebellion against tyranny are intensifying from Myanmar to Serbia. Chilean-born philosopher Pedro Tabenksy, drawing on theorists of rebellion Frantz Fanon and Albert Camus, warns that all rebels—righteous or not—risk becoming the tyrants that they claim to resist if they adopt a cold...| IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
The process leading to human extinction is likely regrettable, argues anti-natalist philosopher David Benatar because it will cause considerable suffering and death. However, the prospect of a world without humans is not something that, in itself, we should regret.| IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
