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123 articles

Argue Your Way to a Fuller Life
- By Steve Paulson
- January 17, 2025
Refute your friends and family, never be satisfied. Philosopher Agnes Callard on life lessons from Socrates.
Meet My Pal, the Ancient Philosopher
- By Helen De Cruz
- December 13, 2024
How friendship with long-dead thinkers can help us live better.
The Power of Small Wonderments
- By Alan Lightman
- November 19, 2024
Alan Lightman’s three greatest revelations while writing The Miraculous from the Material.
How Reality Shapes Our Language—and Vice Versa
- By The Nautilus Marketing Team
- October 10, 2024
A conversation with UCLA philosophy professor Josh Armstrong.
The Reality Ouroboros
- By David Krakauer & David Wolpert
- September 4, 2024
Toward a new understanding of the nature of reality.
A Hermit’s Reality
- By Caitlin L. Chandler
- August 19, 2024
In solitude, this modern priest is meditating on timeless questions.
What Science Forgets
- By Amanda Gefter
- May 23, 2024
Human experience must be factored into science. The authors of a new manifesto argue why.
What Counts as Consciousness
- By Dan Falk
- May 6, 2024
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
I Never Stopped Learning from Daniel Dennett
- By Anil Seth
- May 2, 2024
Reflections on a philosopher who believed we can solve the problem of consciousness.
10 Brilliant Insights from Daniel Dennett
- By Dan Falk
- May 1, 2024
A glimpse of a mind jammed to the rafters with ideas.

Attorney for the Animals, Your Honor

In memory of Steve Wise, a tireless defender of animal rights.
- By Brandon Keim
- February 19, 2024
Who Controls Your Thoughts?

Our minds are being coerced in covert ways.
- By Katherine Harmon Courage
- January 22, 2024
Audio Feature: The Puzzle of Free Will

Tune in to an exploration of one of the great quandaries in science and philosophy.
- By Dan Falk
- November 2, 2023
Who Speaks for the Whales?

Rights for cetaceans are not enough. They also deserve representation.
- By Melanie Challenger
- November 1, 2023
Is the Hard Problem Really So Hard?

The qualities of our experience seem impossible to describe scientifically, but maybe we’re just not thinking about them right.
- By George Musser
- October 20, 2023
Consciousness Is In Your Head. I Consulted Einstein

How the theory of relativity explains our minds.
- By Neil Sinhababu
- July 20, 2023

Yes, There Is a Cure for Bullshit
- By Brian Gallagher
- July 18, 2023
The patron saint of calling BS, Harry Frankfurt, died watching his philosophy become more urgent than ever.
A Conversation with Animal Rights Pioneer Peter Singer
- By Brandon Keim
- May 25, 2023
“Animal Liberation” is nearly 50 years old. What have we learned?
The Race to Colonize Mars Perpetuates a Dangerous Religion
- By Brian Gallagher
- April 20, 2023
We can learn about the universe without conquering it.
When Mary Wollstonecraft Was Duped by Love
- By Regan Penaluna
- March 15, 2023
A spotlight on the personal life of the trailblazing philosopher.
Can AI Help Us Be Better People?
- By Brian Gallagher
- January 30, 2023
One question for Jon Rueda, a doctoral student in moral philosophy at the University of Granada.