i've been wanting to start this for a while. i don't have a whole lot of people in my life who want to hear about or discuss different tidbits of studies old or new, so I reckoned that there must be others who have a few articles they find at least mildly interesting enough to mention and talk about, so.
drop some titles, even your own non-fiction works if you like!, authors, ISBNs, links (be careful with copyright & policies if you're worried about that), and personal commentary if you feel like it. to help out with anyone who wants to find articles once they're mentioned, there's libgen.is, Google Scholar, Google Books, and ?whatever else y'all can share as text sources. it doesn't have to be an aCaDeMiC piece to be shred here; just well-cited and generally certified as…trustworthy? let's try to stay away from ~fake news~ and all that, so: nothing blatantly accusative or hyper-political shared here. i'm going to scour my files and see what i can remember being a good read, and as time goes on, I'll pop by to share some pieces that I've been reading.
so, there you go! throw in a simple title and feel free to rant about if it please ye.
https://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm
I use this website a lot for reference to different beliefs and religions, to see how they function as well as their general myths and legends. It's not 100% error free, but it's one of the closest I found with that many different resources and remarks. Of your writing has to do with religion/belief systems or you wanna learn more about them, enjoy!
Man my psychology professor would be sharing SO MANY to this. Following in case I see one he might want for his collection
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin. great piece by a great author: Le Guin has written so many strange and wonderful things, its terribly inspiring to read some of her quotes or feel yourself smile and her 'humanistic humour' as i like to say. i've just been gifted a book called Survival of the Friendliest by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods, and i think the idea of an essential good in anthropology and human evolution is a -very- important field to be explored. especially as someone deeply opposed to capitalism, i've found it very interesting to hear people (mostly adults) embody a 13-y/o edgelord in who thinks greed and evil is supposedly at the marrow of the human condition and therefore justified in the imaginary chess game of economics.
The Mirror of Evil by Eleonore Stump. this is an essay i studied and challenged for a uni course in metaphysics, and though it's difficult for me to personally 100% agree with, it's a theodicy that raises some interesting points that might resonate strongly with others. to give you the gist: facing the reality of evil in the world can be used to better understanding (our relationship with) God and the existence of evil itself. also: i'd like to should put out a major trigger and content warning for what's inside, so if anyone's concerned/interested, pls ask me, cause uh, its a long list.
Neuroscientific Challenges to Free Will and Responsibility by Adina Roskies. very interesting read for anyone interested in neuroscience and/or philosophy. its not ridiculously long & also very readable: most terms and ideas are well explained (with visuals too, mm) and the writing style is fairly uncomplicated for a paper on neuroscience.
lil intro:
"Recent developments in neuroscience raise the worry that understanding how brains cause behavior will
undermine our views about free will and, consequently, about moral responsibility. The potential ethical consequences of such a result are sweeping. I provide three reasons to think that these worries seemingly inspired by neuroscience are misplaced. First, problems for common-sense notions of freedom exist independently of neuroscientific advances. Second, neuroscience is not in a position to undermine our intuitive notions. Third, recent empirical studies suggest that even if people do misconstrue neuroscientific results as relevant to our notion of freedom, our judgments of moral responsibility will remain largely unaffected. These considerations suggest that neuroethical concerns about challenges to our conception of freedom are misguided."
it references/ replies to Do We Have Free Will? by Benjamin Libet, which is a very interesting scientific study examining how neuroscience could support/harm the idea that free will exists within us. its a lot harder to digest, and it's significantly longer, but ultimately worth the timely read and eye-squinting analysis.
not at all academic but I love St. Sebastian and the feast day is coming up. a simple light read on artistic depiction and cultural connotations. Saint Sebastian: History’s first gay icon?
