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30 June 2017

What Can a Philosopher Do for your Team?

The Role of Philosophy in the Technological Age An increasing number of articles are talking about the growing interest of technology firms in recruiting philosophers for their teams. This [...]

13 March 2017

Metaphysics of our Time: Digital Beings

To be or not to be is not the question The New Scientist journal dedicated a special issue to the “biggest questions“; which are normally, “left to philosophers” but, as stated by [...]

05 December 2015

Heisenberg, the Quantum Philosopher

Few physicists can boast having left a mark on popular culture. The career of physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), however, has had a double impact. The second part, more recent [...]

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23 July 2015

Giordano Bruno: the Philosopher of Astronomy

Being consistent has always been difficult. Caught up in the vortex of today’s accelerated world, it appears almost impossible. However, there are major historical examples of consistency [...]

16 July 2015

The Fourth Revolution: Philosophy to Survive in the Digital Age

Who are we and how do we relate with others? These are two fundamental questions, the answers to which render the changes caused by the internet particularly evident. The way in which [...]

15 June 2015

The Second Curve

This is the title of Charles Handy’s latest book. Handy is part philosopher and part a thinker of current management with a long professional and academic career and an enriching thought. [...]

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18 May 2015

Esthetics and Innovation: from Nietzsche to Schumpeter to Freeman

Explaining technical change (Elster, 1983) takes us on an incredible journey, at times more fleeting than we would wish, where flexibility to adapt to changes and reinvention are almost [...]

06 May 2015

Freud, a Pessimist that Trusted Science

Freud gives an example of how the lever of sentiments shift the balance once more, and indeed on the very issue of whether knowledge formulated in a scientific manner can lead mankind [...]

23 March 2015

Poetic Reason as the Creative Center in María Zambrano

Throughout her intellectual career, María Zambrano was profoundly associated with her maestro, Ortega y Gasset. Ortega viewed human life as a radical reality, rejecting the deductive [...]

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Sustainable Neurochemical Gratification and the Meaning of Existence

When Aristotle famously claimed that the good life was not made in a summer, nor in a day, he implied that the best life was a life committed to contemplation. The question of what gives [...]