The Corona Crisis and Our Personal Situation

2022-12-01T12:44:33+01:00

Freedom and health are fundamental moral values. But there are other, equally important ones. In the course of history many people gave their lives for the value of equality and the idea of a just society and were willing to risk the lives of other people in their pursuit for attaining it. Can we blame them for taking such risks?

The Corona Crisis and Our Personal Situation2022-12-01T12:44:33+01:00

Must Do Better? Some Thoughts about Progress in Philosophy

2022-12-01T12:44:44+01:00

When compared to scientific progress as well as other kinds of inquiry, the nature of philosophical progress is different because of a lacking structural methodological process. Williamson argues that in order to make philosophical progress, we should make clear our philosophical intuitions by adopting a methodology that largely depends on mathematics, “one that prizes clarity, rigor, and open-eyed reflection on the sorts of constraints – including logical constraints – that should be held to fix the contours of the debate.”

Must Do Better? Some Thoughts about Progress in Philosophy2022-12-01T12:44:44+01:00

You Are a Planet Swarming with Life

2022-11-28T16:17:37+01:00

You think about yourself as a unique individual, you experience yourself and your body as a whole. You have one name, but you should actually have many names. You are not one, you are an exuberant ever-changing crowd, a planet swarming with life, a symbiotic microbiome full of millions of micro-organisms that perform various, indispensable functions in your body. In fact, you are innumerable, always a 'we' and never merely an 'I'.

You Are a Planet Swarming with Life2022-11-28T16:17:37+01:00

Haunting the Designer: Ghosts in the Machine

2022-12-01T12:45:03+01:00

  This work was submitted by Michelle Vossen. The opinions and conclusions expressed in it do not necessarily constitute those of the Future Based platform. All rights reserved to the author. Do you have a thesis, a dissertation, or any other kind of research that is gathering dust on a shelf? Would you [...]

Haunting the Designer: Ghosts in the Machine2022-12-01T12:45:03+01:00

Becoming a Bat. Embodying COVID-19: SF Ways of Fighting Helplessness Confronting the Pandemic.

2022-12-01T12:45:15+01:00

This work was submitted by Noam Youngrak Son. The opinions and conclusions expressed in it do not necessarily constitute those of the Future Based platform. All rights reserved to the author. Do you have a thesis, a dissertation, or any other kind of research that is gathering dust on a shelf? Would you like [...]

Becoming a Bat. Embodying COVID-19: SF Ways of Fighting Helplessness Confronting the Pandemic.2022-12-01T12:45:15+01:00

The future pedestrian among self-driving cars

2022-12-01T12:45:29+01:00

The future pedestrian among self-driving cars. How many times have you crossed the street today?Did you look at your phone while crossing?Did you make eye contact with the drivers to ensure that they see you? Street-crossing has become a typical point of the day which no one really pays attention to. It is a [...]

The future pedestrian among self-driving cars2022-12-01T12:45:29+01:00

Reflection on the philosophical understanding of colour.

2022-07-07T12:46:15+02:00

According to our everyday experience, the objects that surround us are coloured. Lemons are yellow, cucumbers are green, and our car is black. But according to physical science, lemons, cucumbers, and our car are composed of particles that are not attributed with colour whatsoever. These two pictures of the world seem not entirely compatible, but how come? Is philosophy able to provide us with an answer to this question?

Reflection on the philosophical understanding of colour.2022-07-07T12:46:15+02:00

Grieving Machines Tell Apocalyptic Stories to Birds

2022-07-07T12:47:00+02:00

Have you ever seen robots that communicate with nonhuman animals and plants, or heard of machines that are programmed to learn from their natural environments? Have you ever encountered technologies that collaborate with nonhuman species? It is not very likely that you have, considering how dominant modes of thinking in the West have a history of putting the human species at center stage – and in sharp contrast to some entity called ‘nature’ – when it comes to framing, designing, programming and using technologies.

Grieving Machines Tell Apocalyptic Stories to Birds2022-07-07T12:47:00+02:00
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