When the advances made by the Scientific Revolution were applied to machinery, the Industrial Revolution was born. The ...

Here’s the main problem in a nutshell: The technologist is not an ethicist, and the ethicist is not a technologist.

Rather than dwelling on falsehoods and misinformation, I want to emphasize why truth and trust are so vital in politics.

Stephen Anderson asks what we mean when we ask if existence has a meaning. In their 1983 film The Meaning of Life, Monty Python took their departing shot at the movie-going public, and simultaneously ...

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 was published over seventy years ago, in 1953, and yet continues to be a source of ...

Willow Verkerk considers what Nietzsche has to teach us about love. What could Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) have to teach us about love? More than we might suppose. Speculations about his sexuality ...

Films Falling Down Thomas R. Morgan considers how personal identity is maintained, and how it is lost. Falling Down (1993) is ...

Angels, humans, the leaves on a tree; is each one unique or just an example of its kind? Peter Pesic explains why Leibniz thought even leaves are individuals. In the long debate on these issues, ...

Henrik Schoeneberg gets smart about fallacious reasoning. Have you ever heard of the Straw Man fallacy, or the Red Herring fallacy? If not, perhaps you will be interested to know that these form parts ...

Structuralism arose on the continent, in particular in France, in the early 60s. The first ‘big name’ was Claude Lévi-Strauss, an anthropologist, who took on Jean-Paul Sartre, the leading French ...

The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis has a very philosophical nature to it. It can be considered a form of Platonism, the philosophy of Plato, who argued that certain abstract ideas have a real ...

Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci takes a dose of it. I’m a scientist by original training, so I tend not to believe in anything that isn’t made of either matter or energy ...