Derek Parfit and Your Future Self
May 4, 2025
The works of Derek Parfit (1942-2017) have had a profound influence on how philosophers understand…
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Changing Minds on Climate Change
April 20, 2025
There is consensus among scientists that global warming is real and that it’s caused by…
Thinking Like a Conspiracy Theorist
March 23, 2025
The moon landing was faked! JFK Jr. is still alive! Finland doesn’t exist! Conspiracy theories…
Alan Turing and the Limits of Computation
February 9, 2025
Alan Turing was a 20th-Century English mathematician and cryptologist who is widely considered to be…
What Would Kant Do?
April 21, 2024
German idealist and moral philosopher Immanuel Kant is probably best known for his “Categorical Imperative,”…
What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do?
March 17, 2024
VR transports users into all kinds of different realities, some modeled on the real world,…
The Social Lives of Robots
February 18, 2024
Machines might surpass humans in terms of computational intelligence, but when it comes to social…
Conscious Machines
June 5, 2022
Computers have already surpassed us in their ability to perform certain cognitive tasks. Perhaps it…
Can Reason Save Us?
June 13, 2021
To an optimist, things are constantly getting better: disease and extreme poverty are down; life…
The Ethics of Algorithms
April 18, 2021
Recent years have seen the rise of machine learning algorithms surrounding us in our homes…
Faith and Humility
December 20, 2020
Some would argue that faith requires that one blindly—rather than rationally— believe. Faith in one…
Cognitive Bias
December 15, 2019
Aristotle thought that rationality was the faculty that distinguished humans from other animals. However, psychological…
Risky Business: The Business of Risk
December 25, 2016
There is an element of risk – either to ourselves or to others – in…
Has Science Replaced Philosophy?
September 6, 2015
Modern science has made astounding progress in our understanding of ourselves and the universe. Physics,…
Why Be Moral?
January 18, 2015
Morality tells us how we ought to behave, if we want to do the right…
Gut Feelings and the Art of Decision-Making
December 14, 2014
We may think of ourselves as rational decision-makers, but we often base even high-stakes decisions…
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