In Praise of a Virtue
Among the many virtues one can strive for I find courage of most value. Of course courage is most impressive when combined with wits, but intelligence without c...
Kategorie: Mind Works
„either ‚faded out‘ or simply, pop! disappeared“
Standing in front of my bookshelves today I randomly picked out a book from the philosophy section called „The Thinking Self“, by Jay Rosenberg. Ros...
Brights and Supers
Daniel Dennett is one of the heroes of my philosophical past. At the time I started reading philosophy of mind in the early 80s, he was cult, and it seems he...
Being liberal
Some years ago I started to define myself again as a political person. Politics re-entered my life on a micro level, mostly due to the immediate political conte...
Bottleneck
After many years of mental work I’ve come to acknowledge the fact that during nearly every solitary creative effort there is a bottleneck period. Subjecti...
Die Würde der Avatare
Der neue Forschungsgegenstand hat jetzt in meiner internen Planung und Logistik den Kürzel „HumDig“ (für „Human Dignity“) bekommen, und ...
Dignified
So werde ich denn wahrscheinlich doch noch einmal zu meiner intellektuellen Grundschule, zur Philosophie, zurückkehren. Als kleines Bestandteil in einem großen ...
Who’s Under Scrutiny?
Spiegel’s Manfred Dworschak has written a loving portrait of my favorite animals.
Mind the Gap!
Können Statistiken spannende Geschichten erzählen? Wenn Hans Rosling sie animiert und erläutert, ja. Der schwedische Gesundheitsforscher hat mit seinem Sohn Ola...
Historical Turn
My reading habits have changed. I read fewer novels. My usual pastime in more indulgent moments, the crime novel, has started to bore me to snoredom. I’m ...