FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Gerd Gigerenzer’s How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

How to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to “turn right in 500 yards.”   Technological solutionism is the belief that every societal problem is a “bug” that needs a “fix” through an algorithm. Technological paternalism is its natural consequence,

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Ashley Cordes’s Indigenous Currencies

This book explores how Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—have long constituted a form of resistance to settler colonialism.   “…[C]ryptocurrency, and digital currency broadly, continue creating shifting circuits of transactional culture. A sort of code rush is taking place, in which various digital forms of currency prevail over conventionally

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Do You Teach Philosophy?

You can search for books across this discipline through our course lists, which include Epistemology, Aesthetics, Existentialism, Gender Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Man. Epistemology Aesthetics Existentialism Gender Philosophy Metaphysics Philosophy of Man Philosophy of Education

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