Harvard Professor Shoshana Zuboff defines the concept of Surveillance Capitalism Harvard Professor Shoshana Zuboff defines the concept of Surveillance Capitalism

Are we inside a "surveillance capitalism"?
Harvard Professor Shoshana Zuboff <www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.as...> gives a short definition:
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Free speech vs hate speech: Susan Benesch on dangerous speech Susan Benesch, senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, explains the difference between hate spe...

Is "Hate Speech" a fake problem? Elon Musk speaks of an "absolutist" view of "Free Speech". But Susan Benesh - founder of dangerousspeech.org – years ago spoke of the criteria where hate speech can become "DANGEROUS SPEECH".
Short clip. Check it out!

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University of Austin’s Experiment: a Report - Daily Nous "I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX." That's one student quoted in an article at Politico by Evan Mandery that describes how things have gone at the University...

"I've never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX." A report on the university created as a bastion of independent thinking and free expression.

PHILOSOPHY - DEMOCRACY 14: Deliberative Democracy In this Wireless Philosophy video, Geoff Pynn (Elgin Community College) examines the idea known as d...

We may be wondering what "democracy" means today.
This is simple analysis:
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We may also go back in time to listen a short video of a young Noam Chomsky
(philvideos.org/video/2022/n...)
or a longer video on Chomsky's manufacturing consent
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Philosophers Among Swedish Research Council Grant Winners - Daily Nous Several projects led by philosophers are among the recent recipients of large grants from the Swedish Research Council. They are: Natural Properties – a Causation-First Approach Bram Vaassen (Umeå Uni...

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The Complete Carnap: Online and Open-Access - Daily Nous The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) are launching a joint project to digitize and place online the complete works of Rudolf ...

A new project to digitize the complete works of Rudolf Carnap will be getting underway...

We had a nice review in an Italian Newspaper on our project. For those reading Italian we attach it here:

We are trying to help people to watch philosophy videos as a way to enhance their reasoning capacity. Among a huge amount of irrelevant videos, with the Philvideos.org project, we look for the most suited for learning and intellectual growing.

Bertrand Russell's message to future generation is so relevant: look for the truth and the facts that support it and DON'T BE DIVERTED BY WHAT YOU WISH TO BELIEVE ...
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Did scientists get climate change wrong? Interview with Prof Tim Palmer from the University of Oxford. A recent opinion piece in the New Yor...

Back to an old discussione on the NYT who claimed that scientists got wrong on climate change: the answer from University of Oxford's scientist Tim Palmer
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Grading Prompts to Measure Student Learning (guest post) - Daily Nous In this era of AI, "can we still rely on take-home writing assignments to assess student learning? And, should we allow students to use ChatGPT in order to complete such assignments? My answer to both...

"Reports of death of the college essay appear greatly exaggerated. Certainly, ChatGPT poses a challenge. As is always the case, however, the challenge comes with an opportunity..."

Coming up: Can moral #philosophy actually make us better people? Josh and Ray try to improve things with Princeton philosopher Peter Singer, author of "Ethics in the Real World" – this Sunday (Peter's 79th birthday!) at 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso.... #PhilSky

A time of disinformation requires a robust reaction and intelligence. Look at the new view of the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper (philvideos.org/video/1616/t...)

Simon Caney - Inter-generational justice ...

What are our obligations to future generations?
Listen to Simon Caney (University of Warwick) about Intergenerational Justice
at:
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C. Thi Nguyen: The Gamification of Public Discourse (Royal Institute of Philosophy) Part of the Royal Institute of Philosophy's 2019 London Lecture series: How Do We Know? The Social D...

Scrolling does not get us to truth. Philosopher Thi Nguyen's work helps us to escape filter bubbles.
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The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars - Patrick Lin View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-ethical-dilemma-of-self-driving-cars-patrick-lin Se...

Old Problem of self driving cars. Still unresolved! What would you do?
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A disenchanted report on what is war by A.C. Grayling at philvideos.org/video/2044/a...

Lex talionis was an advancement in society and Bentham reminds us that extreme measures - on the long run - incite more violence
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This philosopher's work explains Twitter Addiction This is a video about Twitter and the philosophy of jokes or humor. It deals with the work of Thi Ng...

When Twitter existed they spoke of *Twitter' addiction*. Addiction is even stronger on X or Instagram or TikTok (since 2022: www.addictioncenter.com/behavioral-a...)
see Mark Jago's [https://www.markjago.net] remarks on Twitter:
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Bertrand Russell Interview on Philosophy (1960) A reupload from the previous channel of a brief interview with Bertrand Russell. More Short Videos a...

Interview from the past, Bertrand Russell: “Science is what we know. Philosophy id what we don’t know. That’s a simple definition”
… But another use of philosophy..., which is to show there are things we thought we knew and we don’t know”
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The ‘publish or perish’ mentality is fuelling research paper retractions – and undermining science - International Science Council
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Emmy Noether: The Queen Of Mathematics Who Revolutionized Physics Born on 23 March 1882, Emmy Noether, considered by Einstein the most important woman in history of mathematics, had a great passion for theo...

Emmy Noether was a mathematical genius, who made fundamental contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
Noether's theorem, which links symmetries to conservation laws, revolutionized modern understanding of physics.

My post: www.lanostra-matematica.org/2025/03/emmy...

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Epicureans are up do date! don't forget that Epicurus had even a cure for unhappiness and anxiety that is so common today:
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The Philosophy Of Niccolo Machiavelli There are, in the history of philosophy, very few who have reached the level of notoriety as Niccolo...

We need to understand what is going on today.
Maybe it is time to go back to Niccolò Machiavelli?
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Rewiring the Brain Do you worry that screen-based devices – computers, video games and smartphones - are rewiring you...

Worried about our brain: it it really damaged by exposure to too may short videos?

This is the idea of *Brain Rot* (new "Oxford word of the year"):
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And what follows is a dangerous realisation of that:
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What Shopenhauer said a lot of time ago about "not reading" is also valid for "not viewing" too stupid videos.
Follow Philvideos.org to avoid spending time on irrelevant videos.

Are we normalising hate? | Talking Philosophy Professor Jennifer Saul, Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, addresses the topi...

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Thomas Hobbes and January 6 - The Philosophical Salon For students of Early Modern culture, the events at the U.S. Capitol on 6 January, 2021, might have called to mind Act III of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.  To stoke confusion ... Read More

Thomas Hobbes and January 6 …

Everyday philosophy: The poisonous message behind capital punishment How could anyone believe that it is right to murder someone else to make a political point?

How could anyone believe that it is right to murder someone else to make a political point?