Empiricism: The scientific doctrine stating that all knowledge ultimately comes from sensory experience and observable evidence, rather than intuition or pre-conceived ideas.
Month: January 2019
Philosophy In The News, Weekly: January 7 – 13, 2019
The best of the philosophical internet featuring advice on how to reason with a flat earther; a self-help revolution (forget your transformative crap and just accept yourself as you are); and ruminations on an afterlife of torment.
Attention is Not a Resource: It’s a Way of Being Alive to the World
‘We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.’ Those were the words of the American biologist E O Wilson at the turn of the century.
Eternalism: A Minimalist Conceptual Graphic from Philographics
Eternalism: The philosophical position that time is just another dimension, that future events already exist, and that all points in time are equally real.
Philosophy In The News, Weekly: December 29, 2018 to January 6, 2019
The best of the philosophical internet featuring the Gospel according to You... Saint Narcissist; Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' idea (sorry man, it's back and pissed off); and a glittery Socrates-esque seductress on YouTube.
What Aristotle Can Teach Us About Trump’s Emotional Rhetoric
From Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fireside chats to Ronald Reagan’s reputation as the “great communicator” to Barack Obama’s soaring oratory to Donald Trump’s Twitter use, styles of presidential communication have varied over time.
Why You Shouldn’t Want to Always Be Happy
In the 1990s, a psychologist named Martin Seligman led the positive psychology movement, which placed the study of human happiness squarely at the center of psychology research and theory. It continued a trend that began in the 1960s with humanistic and existential psychology, which emphasized the importance of reaching one’s innate potential and creating meaning in one’s life, respectively.
