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What are the philosophical implications of Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem?

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Where and how can I get started in contemporary philosophy?

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How does Nietzsche define and characterize "freedom" throughout his works?

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Are the unexamined lives of others worth examining?

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What are the main points of contention between Marxist and capitalist economic philosophies?

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How does posthumanism differ from transhumanism?

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Representation versus cartography in Deleuze and Guattari?

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Was the Republic a meritocracy?

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What are the philosophical implications of the Halting Problem?

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What are some good books on the relationship between animals and human beings?

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What are the philosophical implications of the uncertainty principle?

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What are the major criticisms of Alain Badiou's claim that mathematics is ontology?

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What might be some of the most significant philosophical implications of a technological singularity?

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Source for "The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man"?

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What is a "straw man" argument? [closed]

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Would it be ethical to own a sentient machine? [closed]

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Who are the most influential living philosophers? [closed]

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How to effectively undertake the study of a philosophical work?

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What are some introductions to the variety of movements that constitute "contintental" philosophy?

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What would constitute a reasonable expectation of privacy?

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Is there a way to generate the 24 valid syllogisms in term logic?

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What are the major points of Meillassoux's critique of correlationism?

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Why does multiplication lead to incompleteness where addition does not?

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Which active movements in philosophy today might be aligned with "continental" interests?