Year: 2021
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A Short Philosophy of Duty
” What should I do ? Most of the philosophical texts on duty begin by citing this moral questioning of Kant. Is it a duty to quote Kant when philosophizing on duty? In a certain academic discourse, yes. Because duty is first and foremost a matter of ritual within a community of practice and belonging.…
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Philosophy as Embodied Vastitude and Vision
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my…
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Towards a Universal Science of Actualisation of Potentials
Generative science studies the complexity that emerges from the iteration of simple rules. From the point of view of crealectics, this approach is still somewhat connected to the overproduction paradigm inherited from mass capitalism. Crealectics see the world as relative simplicity emerging from infinite complexity, not the opposite. This might sound counterintuitive to our postmodern…
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Is Philosophy Useful in Medical Practice? The Physician and The Philosopher
A dialogue between Professor MD PhD Richard Levi, specialist of neuro-rehabilitation at Linköping University Hospital and Dr Luis De Miranda, philosophical practitioner and researcher at the Center for Medical Humanities, Uppsala University.
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Artificial Intelligence: Where will the robots lead us? (video debate)
Most governments and enterprises see AI as a chance and as a positive challenge. But scientists like Stephen Hawking and authors like Karel Čapek, who introduced the word “robot” to the world in a play from 1920, warned against dangers coming with AI. So does much of the fiction written on the topic. Hear a…
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Analytic, Dialectic and Crealectic Thinking in the Context of Philosophical Health
Talk by Dr Luis de Miranda at the 3rd International Conference on Philosophical Counseling & Practice, organised by The National Philosophical Counseling Association (15-16 January 2021). The article referred to is open access here.