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Classical statues were not painted horribly
Did the Greeks and Romans have different tastes, paint badly, or have the reconstructors of classical statues been trolling us?
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When the Dying Wake: What Terminal Lucidity Reveals
Strange bursts of clarity at life’s end challenge the reach of neuroscience.
 • Ralph Stefan Weir
Was Heraclitus a Hindu?
An evaluation of Thomas McEvilley's "scholarly proof" of the influence of the Upanishads on the great pre-Socratic.
 • Ralph Stefan Weir
Have AIs Already Reached Consciousness?
An AI pioneer claims that existing systems are subjectively aware. Are they?
 • Ralph Stefan Weir
Bob Dylan's Philosophy of Modern Song
Thoughts on the preeminent modern songwriter's venture into philosophical aesthetics
 • Ralph Stefan Weir
Why Don't We Study More Indian Philosophy?
The place of Indian thought in the Western world and why we cover so little of it in our philosophy departments
 • Ralph Stefan Weir
Val Plumwood, Ernst Haeckel, and Dualism Blaming
A post about the strange scholarly tradition of dualism-blaming drawing on Plumwood's Feminism and the Mastery of Nature
 • Ralph Stefan Weir
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