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Technology Ethics

“快速行动,打破陈年旧事”是众所周知的Facebook的座右铭,但它很可能是整个硅谷的座右铭。换句话说,硅谷先建设,后处理后果。但这种方法正在造成越来越大的问题。

Dark Knowledge?

A new intellectual counterculture has been coalescing in virtual space. The intellectual dark web is billed as island of free speech in a sea of dogma: a place where bold, creative thinkers can discuss their ideas at length and without censure by the mainstream media or suppression by a hidebound academic establishment.

Slower Reading for Better Philosophy

A new book by Michelle Boulous Walker, Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution, critiques the rapid tempos that adversely affect our relation to the world. Boulous Walker's focus is how something is lost for philosophy, both as an activity and a discipline, when it has to meet a certain pace of reading and production.

Do Philosophy For Its Own Sake, Not for a Job

我们是否应该鼓励学生学习哲学,因为它实际上是一种赚钱和拥有一份高薪职业的好方法?或者在这样做的过程中,我们是否忽视了哲学教育的价值?例如,哲学难道不是民主公民必不可少的吗?