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| | The weblog of Kenny Pearce
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| | Our views of animal ethics in philosophy fall under three broad but distinct strands of thought: a Cartesian, a Kantian, and a Darwinian. All three co-exist uneasily in society today. This essay looks at how these interact with each other in the modern world and what it means for how we view the world and the animals in it.
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| | After Duchamp, the art world came to view the pursuit of beauty as naïve and gravitated toward political art in their search for meaning. But this is a Faustian bargain: you can have meaning, but you do not get to make it for yourself.
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| Nicolas Rouleau and Michael Levin have a new preprint out: Brains and Where Else? Mapping Theories of Consciousness to Unconventional Embodiments. The gist of the paper is that we should be open to seeing consciousness in places other than brains. While I'm onboard with that general premise, they take it to places that don't seem...