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Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a columnist at Big Think and is the award-winning, bestselling author of three[…]
Philosophy isn’t stuck in the past. Here are five texts to connect you with its ongoing dialogue.
Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.
A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret.
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
College students once stood out from the pack on IQ tests. Today, they’re about average.
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
While Taoism can be paradoxical and abstract, it also offers daily life lessons.
Lockdowns moved the burden of COVID from the at-risk elderly to the less-at-risk young. Does this sacrifice merit compensation?