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A Complete Listing

Christopher Kirby, PhD

4 min readAug 15, 2021

Critical Thinking in the Age of Digital Incredulity (NEW SERIES!)

A Good Netizen Asks “Why”

Google-knowing, Critical Thinking, and Democracy

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Metacognition, Metaignorance, and the “Google-effect”

Thinking about Thinking for Responsible Netizens

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The Search Engine Fallacy

How a Good Netizen avoids Confirmation Bias

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The Internet of Things, Big Data, and the Inversion

Or, Netizenship and Democracy as a Way of Life

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In an Infodemic, it’s up to Good Netizens to Slow the Spread

Some Strategies for Cutting through the Crap

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Series on the History of Ancient Western Philosophy (Continuing)

The Foundations of Hellenic Philosophy

Early Traditions from the Neolithic to the Archaic Periods

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Early Greek Philosophy — From Thales to Heraclitus

The “Physikoi”

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Early Greek Philosophy — From Parmenides to the Pluralists

Truth and Illusion

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Finding One’s Way with Socrates

The Socratic method in Plato’s Euthyphro

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“Out of Order… This Whole Trial is Out of Order!”

The Defense and Jailing of Socrates

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A Remembrance of Things Past

Virtue, knowledge, & recollection in Plato’s Meno

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That to Philosophize is to Learn to Die

Death, Immortality, and the Eternal Forms in Plato’s Phædo

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Of Sophists, Pigs, and Noble Lies

Books I-III of Plato’s Republic

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The Polis and Its Problems

Or, the Many Layers in Books IV-VI of Plato’s Republic

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Plato, Philosophical Dungeon Master

Breaking Into Dialectic in the Republic

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Love (and other afflictions) in Plato’s Symposium

Wisdom, Eros, & the Pursuit of the Ideal

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Prophylactics in Plato’s Parmenides

Plato’s Preemptive Criticisms of the Forms

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Aristotle, On How Knowledge Makes its Stand

Knowledge Acquisition in the Posterior Analytics, Physics, and Metaphysics

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Aristotle, On Becoming What We Are

Ontology, Logic, and Growth in the Physics & De Anima

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Aristotle, On “Understanding Understanding Understanding.”

Cosmology & Theology in the Metaphysics

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Aristotle, On the Art of Associated Living

Love and Happiness in the Ethics and Politics

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Fear and Loathing in the Hellenistic World

Greek Philosophy under Foreign Rule

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Cicero’s De Re Publica and De Legibus

Right Reason in Agreement with Nature

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Lucretius and De Rerum Natura

A Way for the Universe to Know Itself

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Stoicism… Without the Pretense?

3 Roman Stoics — Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius

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Series on Chinese Proverbs for Self-Improvement (Continuing)

The Ancient Chinese Proverb that Predicted Online Echo Chambers

On the Saying: “Three People Make a Tiger” (Sān Rén Chéng Hǔ)

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An Ancient Chinese Proverb for Coping with Crisis

On the Saying: “Old Sai Lost His Horse” (Sài Wēng Shī Mǎ)

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An Ancient Chinese Proverb about Cunning that Inspired a Children’s Bestseller

On the Saying: “The Fox Borrows the Tiger’s Might” (Hú jiǎ hǔ wēi)

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An Ancient Chinese Proverb for Finding your Niche

On the Saying: “A Well-Bottom Frog” (Jǐng Dǐ Zhī Wā)

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Series on the History of Chinese Philosophy (Completed)

A Keyhole View into Classical Chinese Thought

Kung fu and Treating Philosophy as a Way of Life

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Language and Thought in Chinese Philosophy

Do the languages we speak shape how we think?

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The Importance of Place in China’s Mythological Past

Agriculture, Legend, and Harmony

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The Poetic Elements of Chinese Philosophy

Saying More by Writing Less

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Understanding the Cosmic Dance through the Yijing

Harmony in Heaven and Humankind

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The Sayings of Confucius

A Model Teacher for the Ages

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The Legacy of Confucius

Carving and Polishing the Moral Character — or “Leveling up, the Confucian Way!”

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Ritual in the Confucian Tradition

Sociocosmic Harmony in the Da Xue and Zhong Yong

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Was Confucius just another Sexist A**Hole?

Confucian Ritual, Gender, and Normativity

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Family Reverence in Confucian Societies

Is “OK, Boomer!” the rally cry of an unhealthy society?

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Mencius and Xunzi on Human Nature

To nurture the seeds, or straighten crooked timber?

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Inhabiting the Ineffable Dao

or, Feeling at Home Right Where You Are

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The Dao of Virtue Complete

Great Carvers Cut Little

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Dao, Nature, and the Mystical

A River Returning to the Sea

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Footloose in the Dao with Zhuangzi

and, The Happiness of Minnows

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The Poetics of Normativity in the Zhuangzi

From the Pipes of Heaven to Moral Knack

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Cicada-catching with Zhuangzi

Dao Strategy, Moral Imagination, and the Genuine Person

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Mozi’s 10 Ways to Improve a State

The San Biao and the Ten Theses

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The Mohist Legacy and the Disputers of Names

From “Universal Love” to “The White Horse”

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The Ministers of Political Methods — From Guanzi to Hanfeizi

Like Driving Horses with Reins and Whips

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