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“Is It Socrates Or Descartes?”: 27 Questions To Test Your Philosophy & Culture Knowledge

Can you tell Plato from Freud? And Darwin from Descartes? The Enlightenment from the Renaissance? This general knowledge trivia quiz is all about big ideas across history, philosophy, science, and culture. From the “invisible hand” to the fall of the Berlin Wall, from natural selection to Stoicism, this quiz is…

Bored Panda · May 25

Friday essay: why has philosophy ignored motherhood?

Over many seasons, I’ve observed a pair of masked lapwings hatch their chicks in a natural wetland close to my home. Nature did not prime these parents to care for their young. My lapwing neighbours would walk their downy chicks into the open and fly away when noisy miner birds…

The Conversation · May 7

One simple sentence can instantly lower your car price — and almost no one uses it

This one needs patience.

We Got This Covered · Nov 1, 2025

Broken Roads review

Descartes before the horse.

PC Gamer · Apr 10, 2024

Commentary: ‘Fetal personhood’ has a whiff of medieval theology

A pregnant body is an anomaly. I mean this in a technical sense, because the body of a woman with a developing child growing in her belly literally does not fit into the system of categorization that’s long been the de facto standard for Western culture.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 15, 2022

‘What are our lives for?’: a philosopher answers kids’ existential questions

What happens when Plato mixes with playtime? Philosopher Scott Hershovitz answers the questions that confound children and adults alike

The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2022

John M. Crisp: Astronauts should work from home too

Humankind shares with all animals our innate impulse to survive and procreate. But few characteristics distinguish us more from the rest of creation than our powerful desire to explore, to discover, to understand and to explain. Descartes could have as easily said, “I explore, therefore I am.”

Tribune News Service · Feb 21, 2022