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On the cultural ideology of Big Data.
April 29 2015, 2:25am | Comments
Was theory a gigantic hoax? On the contrary. It was the only salvation, for a twenty year period, from two colossal abdications by American thinkers and writers. From about 1975 to…
August 18 2011, 1:48am | Comments
How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there…
January 9 2011, 3:38pm | Comments
by Mary Midgley Does the term "humanism" really stand for a new and better form of religion? If so, what is that religion? Or is it something designed as a cure…
November 4 2010, 6:58am | Comments
October 12 2010, 5:09pm | Comments
The belief that humanity makes moral progress depends upon a wilful ignorance of history. It also depends upon a wilful ignorance of oneself – a refusal to recognise the extent to…
June 12 2010, 9:19am | Comments
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