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What progress has philosophy made in the last few decades?

What progress has philosophy made in the last few decades?

Scott Aaronson on Philosophical Progress

... which progress has been made. Instead, he or she constantly needs ... But it's only within the last few years that computer scientists ...

Education in Plato's Republic - Santa Clara University

... philosopher-kings (541a). This time, Glaucon takes the cue and says, "Just like a sculptor, Socrates, you have produced ruling men who are wholly fair" (540c).

On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th ...

I was already fifty-five years old when I discovered that I had become a Thomistic Aristotelian. But I had first encountered Thomism thirty- ...

The Doomsday Invention - The New Yorker

... has recently made striking advances—with everyday technology ... In recent years, Google has purchased seven robotics companies and several ...

Why Isn't There More Progress in Philosophy?1 | Cambridge Core

Another version of the first objection suggests that some big philosophical questions of the past have reached consensus and so have dropped off the list of big ...

Totality: Decades of Debate and the Return of Nature

It is a philosophy asserting that nothing can be understood except in terms of its dynamic pattern of interconnections with everything else. It ...

The Future of Origin of Life Research: Bridging Decades-Old Divisions

In the past 10 years, many have worked and asked for OoL research to unite ... On another note, some propose that different geological settings could have created ...

The Future Of Philosophy Of Science

Contrary to popular perception, philosophers have made much progress ... As it turns out, Hume's question has spurred decades of thoughtful ...

Immanuel Kant and The One Rule for Life - Mark Manson

If brains had balls, Kant's would have been made out of steel. His ideas ... And in all of my years reading and studying philosophy, psychology, and ...

History of African Philosophy

That Greek philosophy had roots in Egypt does not imply, as some claim, that Egyptians were high-melanated nor that high-melanated Africans created Egyptian ...

Letter to non-academic philosophers - Google Sites

By some measures, Immanuel Kant is the most influential systematic philosopher in the past 1000 years. He had all the key advantages: he'd spent his career ...

Greatest contribution of philosophy in last 100 years?

Contemporary philosophy has answered one of our biggest doubts: - Are we, as humans, with or without God, morally good? And the phenomenological ...

Thinking about Progress: From Science to Philosophy - PhilPapers

In general, pessimism about philosophical progress holds that philosophy has either made no progress at all, or not 'enough' relative to some specified ...

Where Do Morals Come From? | Philosophy Break

This lack of progress has enabled a new player to enter the game. With compelling research into animal behavior over the last few decades, biology has ...

Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of ...

In the last two decades, he has become widely recognized as one of ... Gravity, he has argued time and again, was created and made ...

An Interview with Rupert Read, Spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion

... few decades. The trajectory that we are on does not leave any real ... The idea of progress has become decoupled from any meaningful benefit to ...

Questions | AskPhilosophers.org

Now, it is hard enough for graduate students who've devoted five, six, or more years studying philosophy to start making much progress -- they have to get to ...

John Dewey: Portrait of a Progressive Thinker

... past two hundred years. Perhaps Dewey's greatest liability was his style. Concerning clarity, the nineteenth-century philosopher Herbert Spencer once wrote ...

#72 Roots of Progress: On Technological Progress and How ...

Some decades before him, other people had proposed this, but they had not ... make sure that you get to have the last word. So just a closing question ...

On breaking philosophy out of the seminar and back into the world

If you extend the period out to roughly the past 20 years, then philosophy majors as a percentage of bachelor's degrees have stayed roughly ...