"We need to change cows and work towards artificial meat" - Bill Gates SHARE if you refuse to eat the fake meat 💪

Can AI Companions Truly Be Our Friends? AI companions are getting more and more popular.  Some people are also developing emotional connections and friendships. How would Aristotle consider these relationships? shorturl.at/yS4au

Can AI companions be our friends. Aristotle would think they don't have what it takes. I explain why in my latest post on Substack: shorturl.at/fB9L3

Philosophy of love: how Plato's Symposium connects with today's romance: open.substack.com/pub/mariaanton…

Philosophy isn't just for academics—it's a way of thinking that can enrich your everyday life. A Map to Academic Philosophy mariaantoniettaperna.substack.com/p/a-map-to-aca…

My review of Elizabeth Anderson's Private Government: open.substack.com/pub/mariaanton…

Critical thinking 101: what do short arguments look like? How can you identify or even reconstruct them? My latest post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/mariaanton…

Does the idea of a reality outside the mind and its perceptions make sense? The 18th-century Irish philosopher George Berkeley didn't think so. What do you think? open.substack.com/pub/mariaanton…

A quick introduction to assessing arguments premises: Critical Thinking 101 open.substack.com/pub/mariaanton…

Why Did Socrates Annoy Everyone? open.substack.com/pub/mariaanton…

Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a core text of Western philosophy and a great work of our Enlightenment. Let's read it together. Read-Along Series: John Locke's Essay open.substack.com/pub/mariaanton…

I know, it sounds a bit like a joke or it can even get on people’s nerves, but when philosophers come up with the well-known line - “What do you mean by [X]?” - instead of launching straight into a rebuttal or a defense of the issue being discussed, they’re simply doing their job

Time to tackle the role of definitions in arguments - The Art of Defining: A Critical Thinking Superpower open.substack.com/pub/mariaanton…

The lack of self-awareness here is astonishing. Soros has been financing a massive campaign to destabilize our cities. His sense that he is entitled to do this leaves no room for doubt regarding his own megalomania. It is on full display.

Our Enlightenment thinkers fought against authoritarianism and censorship, and enrolled philosophy in its most theoretical form (metaphysics and epistemology in the case of Locke) in their battles. Let’s read Locke’s Essay, Book I together! open.substack.com/pub/mariaanton…

Locke talks about ‘ideas’, but how are these ideas to be understood? Are they a bit like a veil between our mind and the external world? What possible issues could be raised with this interpretation? mariaantoniettaperna.substack.com/p/john-lockes-…

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