Philosophy

Essays and references on how people have tried to make sense of things.

References

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Website) — the gold-standard free philosophy reference — thousands of scholar-written, peer-reviewed, continuously updated entries.

• Japanese Aesthetics (Article) — a tour through six core ideas (mono no aware, wabi, sabi, yūgen, iki, and kire) and how a culture built beauty out of impermanence and imperfection.

Blogs

• Philosophical Disquisitions (Website) — John Danaher on the ethics of technology — AI, autonomy, digital duplicates of people — argued in careful, diagrammed detail.