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Philosophical Dictionary

  • A seaside cave at dusk, the sun fading. A large group of bats escape the cave as a cloaked figure holds a torch nearby to illustrate Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"

    Release the Bats!: Thomas Nagel's Subjectivity of Experience

    By Caroline Black

    We discuss Thomas Nagel's ideas on the limitations of human knowledge and how much we can know about subjectivity of experience outside our own. Can we know what it is like to be a bat?
  • I Think Therefore I Honk: The Cogito Explained

    I Think Therefore I Honk: The Cogito Explained

    By Caroline Black

    Existence is everything and nothing. How do we know we exist? Or even better, how do we know that other people exist? Something so basic as existence should be obvious, but is it really?  We don’t tend to wonder if...