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The real fertility question: Why has the ratio of childlessness to childfulness changed so little? philosophynews.com/the-real-ferti…

Life in a rock band. “Today I feel like a tired old whore. Some days I feel like a god. Most of the time I feel like an ambitious T-shirt salesman” philosophynews.com/life-in-a-rock…

Why did John Bumpass Calhoun’s rodent utopia — 16 apartment buildings with 256 units and unlimited food and water — turn into a mouse hell? philosophynews.com/why-did-john-b…

Slavoj Žižek: “We already live in the end of the world” philosophynews.com/slavoj-zizek-w…

Unlike data sets, the human mind isn’t trained. It experiences and learns and invents and thinks. No computer can do that philosophynews.com/unlike-data-se…

Need a jolt? Read the songs of Hadewijch of Antwerp, a 13th-century mystic who wrote rapturous, erotic descriptions of receiving the Eucharist philosophynews.com/need-a-jolt-re…

The first chatbot therapist debuted in 1966. Noted its creator: “A certain danger lurks there.” Still does philosophynews.com/the-first-chat…

Disjunction philosophynews.com/disjunction/?u…

“I Can See Your Gender”: Givenness at the Paris Olympics philosophynews.com/i-can-see-your…

ʿAyn al-Qudat philosophynews.com/%ca%bfayn-al-q…

It is time for the world to embrace uncertainty philosophynews.com/it-is-time-for…

Designing the Grade as a Target to Strive For philosophynews.com/designing-the-…

On and Off in Life and Death philosophynews.com/on-and-off-in-…

In early modern England, numbers were tactile: three barleycorns made an inch; four saltfish made a warp; tallies were made on wood philosophynews.com/in-early-moder…

Babitz and Didion. Making sense of the contentious bond between “fastidious, frigorific, bony Joan” and “heedless, hot, voluptuous Eve” philosophynews.com/babitz-and-did…

To understand Bruno Latour you must grasp three facts: He was from a wine-growing family; he was from Burgundy; and he was Catholic philosophynews.com/to-understand-…

Capacity for Welfare Across Species philosophynews.com/capacity-for-w…

Political Humility: The Limits of Knowledge in Our Partisan Political Climate philosophynews.com/political-humi…

The ineffability of meaning philosophynews.com/the-ineffabili…

“What afflicts literature, more than book banning, is this rapid loss of the ability to read for deeper meanings, to grasp subtlety, and to understand ambiguity” philosophynews.com/what-afflicts-…