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In the recording below, philosopher Julian Baggini discusses artificial intelligence and what it means to be human with Brian Christian, who recently published a book on the connections between these ideas, called The Most Human Human.

There’s an excellent article in the Observer here about censorship. Sad to see it’s still alive and well in Dudley.

Matt at the Consternation of Philosophy blog traces the doctrine’s roots back to Aristotle.

It seems so. If they do, each death will be horrible; but I think it needs to be done to stop the situation in Libya from deteriorating even further.

An exploration of what follows from accepting that not all aspects of humanity are amenable to scientific explanation. Via the Philosopher’s Beard blog.

Matthew Reisz reports for the Times Higher Education Supplement on the ongoing problems in Hungary.

Christopher Hitchens argues for US military intervention in Libya.