List: Secrets of Philosophy | Curated by Benjamin Cain

Feb 19, 2025
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Secrets of Philosophy
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Philosophy For Those Who Are Neither Vulgar Nor WiseA critical introduction to the philosophical journey
Jan 22, 2022
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Jan 22, 2022
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Grim Tidings
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Psychedelics: Forgotten Foundations of the Human ConditionCharting the profound influence of psychoactive plants on history, religion, elitism, and politics
Oct 28, 2022
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Oct 28, 2022
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The Strangeness of Ultimate TruthWhy reality is likely to be shocking and subversive
Dec 14, 2019
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Dec 14, 2019
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Is the Search for Truth a Game?The terrors beyond our cognitive sandboxes
May 18, 2022
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May 18, 2022
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Is Self-Deception the Bedrock of All Knowledge?How the inhuman cosmos negates childlike pretenses
Mar 28, 2022
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Mar 28, 2022
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We Know We’re Telling Tall Tales Because Our Mouths are MovingPragmatism, objectivity, and the spectrum of stories we tell
Jul 30, 2022
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Jul 30, 2022
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Why We Should Reject the Conceit of “Objective Truth”Tracking, mapping, understanding, and life’s role in the greater evolution of nonlife
Aug 9, 2022
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Aug 9, 2022
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Understanding the Facts Makes All Knowledge Partly SubjectiveMental maps and the oxymoron of pure objectivity
Sep 7, 2022
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Sep 7, 2022
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The Pretense that Objective Truth is NeutralAnd how nonfiction and fiction are inversely related
Mar 7, 2023
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Mar 7, 2023
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The Simplistic Myth We Tell about “Objective Truth”Why truth must be paradoxical for a species of pretenders
Jun 29, 2023
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Jun 29, 2023
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How Even Science is as Arbitrary as the Taste in ArtThe false dichotomy between objective truth and subjective opinion
Jul 11, 2023
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Jul 11, 2023
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Is Science Neutral or Imperialistic Towards Nature?The progressive, mammalian purpose of deeming everything to be part of a “natural universe”
Aug 3, 2023
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Aug 3, 2023
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Even Scientists are Trapped by their IntuitionsTo social mammals like us, mindless physicality may be inexplicable
Dec 4, 2023
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Dec 4, 2023
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Are Scientists So Ruthless that they Orphan their Brainchildren?The difference between mapping and understanding real events
Aug 10, 2023
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Aug 10, 2023
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Are Scientists as Objective as Thermometers?How objectivity works against understanding
Aug 14, 2023
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Aug 14, 2023
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Why Scientists Don’t Understand the Inhuman WildernessAnd how transhumans might expand their intuitions to encompass alienness
Aug 23, 2023
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Aug 23, 2023
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Philosophy Today
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Quantum Wildness and the Newtonian Myth of a Natural OrderThe persistence of wildness in civility, and the refusal to submit to natural facts
Nov 28, 2024
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Nov 28, 2024
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God’s Funeral
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Does Science Make Atheistic Naturalism Mandatory?A debate with Prudence Louise on philosophical naturalism
Mar 8, 2024
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Mar 8, 2024
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Is Philosophical Naturalism a Dead End?A debate between an atheist and a Christian
Mar 25, 2024
Mar 25, 2024
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Is Naturalism Vacuous?A debate on whether naturalists can devise a meaningful worldview that rejects theism and supernaturalism
Mar 28, 2024
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Mar 28, 2024
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