Year: 2020
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Philosophical Instruments
“His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study In Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes).
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Embracing or Fearing Possibility? From Plotinus to Nietzsche
In his book on Plotinus (1993), Pierre Hadot says about the three first centuries of the Christian era that “this age was disgusted with the body” (p. 23). He quotes Porphyry: “Plotinus resembled someone who was ashamed of being in a body.” But in a footnote Hadot adds: “I am now much less sure about…
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Nietzsche’s Medical Philosopher
I am still waiting for a philosophical physician, in the exceptional sense of the word—one who has to pursue the problem of the total health of a people, time, race or of humanity—to master the courage to push my suspicion to its limits and to risk the proposition: what was at stake in all philosophizing…
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The Chronicle of a World to Come
2 months to the official publication in English by Snuggly Books of my novel Paridaiza, translated from the French by Tina Kover. One can pre-order it on Amazon and other retailers.
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The Church that Became a Bookshop
Where one book became many: St Tiago Church, Óbidos, Portugal, 2020.
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Artificial Intelligence and Crealectics
A special issue of the Journal Human Affairs on Philosophical Reflection and Technological Change, edited by Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia will be published in October 2020. It will contain a novel peer-reviewed article I wrote with the following title and abstract: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHILOSOPHICAL CREATIVITY: FROM ANALYTICS TO CREALECTICS, by Luis de Miranda…
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