Philosophy

When the going gets tough, the tough get philosophical.

Fight the tendency to see your life as a narrative journey.

One question for Daniel Williams, a philosopher at the University of Cambridge.

It’s time to take moral emotion in animals seriously.

To this philosopher, art is the best method for exploring who and what we are.

Don’t worry, even in a simulation, life is still perfectly meaningful.

You might think we have definitive evidence we’re not in a simulation. That’s impossible.

By now everybody’s heard about the terrible treatment that pigs and chickens get in factory farms. For many, the solution seems obvious: eat less meat. But let’s look at that solution in terms of how effective it is. According to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average American eats about 30 farm animals […]

The psychologist unpacks rationality and denies being a guru to the capitalist elite.

A student at the edge of reason.

Panpsychists look at the many rungs on the complexity ladder of nature and see no obvious line between mind and no-mind.Illustration by Yurchanka Siarhei / Shutterstock Last year, the cover of New Scientist ran the headline, “Is the Universe Conscious?” Mathematician and physicist Johannes Kleiner, at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy in Germany, told […]

Published research is less about conclusions than science at play.

If objective ethical values exist, we’ll have to give up tribalism to realize them.