Love cats, eat cows?
We Americans like to think of ourselves as animal lovers. But is this claim true? One way to answer this question is to follow the money. According to government, industry and interest group stats, we...
View ArticleDo plants have their own form of conciousness?
- When, almost two months ago, I penned an op-ed titled If Peas Can Talk, Should We Eat Them? for "The Stone" philosophy section of the New York Times, I did not expect that it would stir as much...
View ArticleRick Newman on 'Rebounders': Turning Setbacks Into Success
In the first chapter of his book Rebounders: How Winners Pivot from Setback to Success, U.S. News & World Report Chief Business Correspondent Rick Newman quotes German philosopher Nietzsche, who...
View ArticleHow to Argue About Politics
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless.Tags: Christians and Christianity (Des);, Philosophy, Presidential Election of 2012, Republican Party As a...
View ArticleDo we want a thoughtful or an ignorant life and society?
Here's a simple rule if you want to get noticed in today's Australia. Don't worry about how much you might actually know or have thought about an issue: just go in hard and outrageous. Volume is all...
View ArticleAsshole Rising
Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, The First Sixty Years By Geoffrey Nunberg PublicAffairs 272 pages _______________ Linguist and Berkeley professor Geoffrey Nunberg states early in his new book Ascent...
View ArticleRethinking Mill and Paternalism
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. Tags: Philosophy The Stone’s weekly briefing of notable philosophy-related issues and ideas from around the Web....
View Article‘Mommy Wars’ Redux: A False Conflict
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless.Tags: feminism, motherhood, Parenting, Philosophy The “mommy wars” have flared up once again, sparked most...
View ArticleBe Honest: Is Your Kid an Asshole?
It's the best of times; it's the worst of times, ergo: Kids are awesome; kids are dicks. Just like adults! A kid will hand you half of their brownie to share like some angelic little benevolent sugar...
View Article'God Is': From Biblical Literalism To A Mystical Understanding Of God
I was talking to a woman at Church on Sunday who has been through more than her share of hard times. She wears her life in the lines on her face and along the scars and blemishes on her fragile hands....
View ArticleThe School of Arthur Danto
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. Tags: Art, Danto, Arthur C (1924-2013), Philosophy Each semester for a quarter-century, as...
View ArticleAn unexamined life is not worth living
By Peter Espeut It's all the fashion to attack religion, and Christianity in particular; and the attacks come from many sides. For example, some natural scientists say religion is no more than...
View Article10 Brain-Breaking Scientific Concepts
Mike Floorwalker May 4, 2013 Check out our new companion site: http://knowledgenuts.com Many of us here at Listverse really enjoy messing with the heads of our readership. We know that you come here...
View ArticleDaniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking
Daniel Dennett: 'Often the word "surely" is as good as a blinking light locating a weak point in the argument.' Photograph: Peter Yang/August 1 USE YOUR MISTAKES We have all heard the forlorn refrain:...
View ArticleAn Author Attracts Unlikely Allies
In 1974 Thomas Nagel published a short essay arguing that the subjective experience of consciousness — what philosophers call the “qualia” — could not be fully reduced to the physical aspects of the...
View ArticleReaders write (May 25): Capitol gridlock, marriage equality, progress by...
CAPITOL GRIDLOCK Unhappy constituents rate 2011 Legislature Republican state Sen. Dave Thompson, R-Lakeville, objected to end-of-session comments by Senate Minority leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, by...
View ArticleWhy "Deliberate Practice" Is The Only Way To Keep Getting Better
Let's say that you like to play the piano. Maybe you even want to be an expert one day--that way you could write songs for your crush, get in touch with your inner Beethoven, and lead barroom...
View ArticlePassover with the Bronfmans
Each December for the past fifteen years, the literary agent John Brockman has pulled out his Rolodex and asked a legion of top scientists and writers to ponder a single question: What scientific...
View ArticleReasons Matter (When Intuitions Don’t Object)
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. Tags: intuition, Jonathan Haidt, Philosophy, psychology, reason This post by the psychologist Jonathan Haidt is a...
View ArticleHow GitHub, Yammer, And Broadway Shows Prove Temp Teams Are The Most...
When we talked with Yammer CTO Adam Pisoni earlier this year, he dropped some iterative knowledge on us: The Microsoft-acquired social business startup forms and dissolves its engineering teams....
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