Artificial intelligence now writes code, drafts legal memos, and chats in fluent paragraphs, yet the most unsettling question ...

The Greek word for "excellence" was mistranslated into Latin as "manliness," and eventually became our word "virtue." ...

If you have a passing interest in technology, you might be familiar with terms such as 'the attention economy' or 'the distraction economy.' According to a Googler-turned-philosopher James Williams, ...

A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell ...

Is it unethical to create AI potentially capable of experiencing distress? In A Nutshell Cambridge philosopher argues current evidence cannot determine whether advanced AI would experience ...

The Sonoran Desert, which covers much of the southwestern United States, is a vast expanse of arid earth where cartoonish entities—roadrunners, tumbleweeds, telephone-pole-tall succulents—make ...

During times of turbulence in politics, culture, and religious life, it’s tempting to hold tightly to current convictions. Allowing a change of one’s mind or heart can be difficult work. With this in ...

Diotima, the female philosopher in Plato's Symposium, has puzzled historians for centuries with her theory of love and beauty.

American stories trace the sweep of history, but their details are definingly particular. In the summer of 1979, Elizabeth Anderson, then a rising junior at Swarthmore College, got a job as a ...

As claims about conscious AI grow louder, a Cambridge philosopher argues that we lack the evidence to know whether machines ...