Category Archives: Humans

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

Posted on May 2, 2021 by Giorgio Bertini

In this timely book, Toby Ord argues that there is a one in six chance that humanity will suffer an existential catastrophe within the next 100 years, and that minimizing this risk should be a major global priority. We live … Continue reading →

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Self-knowledge for humans

Posted on December 12, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

This book appears to have two primary goals. One is to critique what Quassim Cassam calls “Rationalism” about self-knowledge. This is the view, associated especially with Richard Moran (2001), that the primary way one knows what one believes (or wants, … Continue reading →

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