Johnathan Bi

Debate: Can AI Write a Great Book?

Artificial intelligence challenges the traditional boundaries of authorship, education, and philosophical inquiry. While AI can replicate the semantic structure of great literature and Socratic dialogue, it lacks the embodied human experience and "ensouled speech" that define profound intellectual contributions. This t...

Plato’s Guide to Virtue | Cornell’s Rachana Kamtekar

A Systematic Critique of Stoic Philosophy | Cicero's Definibus

Why You Self-Sabotage | Rachana Kamtekar on Plato’s Moral Psychology

Introduction to Ancient Skepticism | Tad Brennan on Sextus Empiricus

How Stoics Reconcile Determinism & Free Will | Cornell's Tad Brennan

The Signs that AI is Conscious | Imperial's Murray Shanahan

AI's Killer-App Isn't Chatbots, It's Social | Linkedin Founder Reid Hoffman

Why Stoicism Doesn’t Work Without God | Tad Brennan on Stoic Ethics

The Slave Who Was Free | Berkeley’s AA Long on Epictetus

The Case for Emotional Pacifism | Martha Nussbaum on Britten’s War Requiem

Introduction to Hellenistic Philosophy | AA Long on Stoicism, Skepticism, Epicureanism

Why Plato Hated Democracy | GRF Ferrari on the Republic

The First 80 years of AI, and What Comes Next | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge

How to Prepare for the AI Age: US-China, War, Job Loss | Tyler Cowen

Plato’s Critique of Hookup Culture | GRF Ferrari on the Phaedrus

Making Sense of Christianity's Violent Past | Carlos Eire

Introduction to Stoic Philosophy | Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Explained

Yale Historian Uncovers Evidence for Levitation | Carlos Eire on Christian Miracles

The Surprising Source of Shakespeare’s Inspiration | Stephen Greenblatt