Curated playlist
Philosophers of technology
- AristotleOnly around a third of Aristotle's original writings survive, and none was meant to be published.
- Karl MarxKarl Marx left an estate valued at just 250 pounds when he died in 1883. He died stateless in London at 64.
- William MorrisWilliam Morris despised industrial capitalism yet decorated the homes of the rich.
- Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley died the same day as John F. Kennedy, and almost nobody noticed. C. S. Lewis died that afternoon too.
- Francis BaconFrancis Bacon may have died after stuffing a hen with snow. He wanted to test if cold could preserve meat like salt.
- Samuel Butler (novelist)In 1863, a newspaper called The Press printed a letter signed only with the pen name Cellarius. The author was Samuel Butler, an English novelist and critic, and the letter was titled "Darwin among the Machines". It appeared four years…
- Nikolai BerdyaevNikolai Berdyaev told the Soviet secret police chief what was wrong with Bolshevism, and was freed.
- José Ortega y GassetJosé Ortega y Gasset answered Descartes with "I live therefore I think." He put lived experience before abstract reason.
- David ChalmersWhy does seeing red feel like anything at all? Philosopher David Chalmers named this the hard problem of consciousness.
- Konstantin TsiolkovskyDeaf teacher Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote the rocket equation in a log house in 1897.