Google’s former AI chief, Geoffrey Hinton, says there are two ways in which AI poses an existential threat to humanity. But ...

When kids ask difficult questions, listen, validate their feelings, answer truthfully at their level, and suggest specific ...

Things aren't so great just now. They haven't been super for a while. It's hard to find new platitudes to mumble to those who ...

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes set forth the argument that when “men live without other security than what their own strength ...

Explore the foundational ideas of ancient Greek philosophy, from the naturalistic inquiries of the Pre-Socratics to the ...

Philosophers, bless them, are trying to understand how normal people think about morality. Normal people, as you may have heard, hang out on the internet. And what is the internet’s biggest ...

Philosophers can get stuck in the bottles of their own academic specialties. For them, too, philosophical counselling can be liberating—a way of freeing themselves by illuminating a path for ...

It’s a question that scientists, philosophers, theologians and artists have pondered for millennia, and one that guides the work of the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe (LCLU) at the ...

Physicists and philosophers of science often appear to operate in different spaces. Robert P Crease reports from a meeting where they were, for once, in the same quantum state When two become one ...

Regan Penaluna, the author of “How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind,” sometimes seems to agree that there is no such thing as the ...

We are philosophers who study colors, objectivity, and science, and we argue in our book The Metaphysics of Colors that colors are as objective as length and temperature. Perceptual variation.