Philosophy & Deep Thought

Magazine articles on philosophy and fundamental questions.

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ifeminists December 29, 2008 Manfred F. Schieder	Ayn Rand and the End of Malthus A look at Thomas Malthus' philosophy of objectivism in the matter of population growth and food depletion.
AskMen.com Ross Bonander	4 Steps: Cope With Loss These 4 steps teach you to cope with loss by addressing times during the grieving process when it becomes overwhelming, and also inconvenient.
culturevulture.net Nancy Wozny	Chautauqua Institute: A thinking person's vacation The Chautauqua Institute is actually a Greek temple called "The Hall of Philosophy," which some of the world's most prominent intellectuals graced during their daytime lectures. You will find the performing and visual arts here in abundance, as well.
Scientific American August 2008 John Rennie	Big Brother Sees All in the Technological Fishbowl How much do technologies that affect privacy also influence freedom?
ifeminists August 13, 2007 Brian Doherty	Ayn Rand at 100...a Centennial Tribute (2005) Libertarianism may not "usually" begin with Ayn Rand anymore. But her literary skills and burning moral passion, as much as her rigorous, systematic approach to the linkages between reason and liberty, will remain a powerful introduction to the idea that your life belongs to you.
TIME Europe April 5, 2007 Walter Isaacson	Einstein & Faith For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence. For Einstein it was the absence of miracles that reflected divine providence. The fact that the world was comprehensible, that it followed laws, was worthy of awe.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Stephen Cass	Strange Ways Book Review: In I Am a Strange Loop, author Douglas R. Hofstadter ponders the kind of consciousness animals might have, the emergence of a shared identity between life partners, and what remains of people after they die.
Scientific American April 2007 Michael Shermer	Free to Choose The neuroscience of choice exposes the power of ideas.
TIME Europe March 5, 2007 Charles Krauthammer	The Fine Art of Dying Well No one grasps more greedily -- and cruelly -- the need for agency in death as does the greatest moral monster of our time: the suicide bomber.
Scientific American March 2007 George Johnson	A New Journey into Hofstadter's Mind Book Review: I Am a Strange Loop, by cognitive and computer scientist Douglas R. Hofstadter, pulls out the big themes from his 1979 Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid and develops them into a more focused picture of consciousness.
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