Mathematician and scientist Stephen Wolfram grew up in a household where his mother was a philosophy professor at Oxford University. As such, his younger self didn’t want anything to do with the ...

Can AI help us think more clearly? We often talk about AI as a tool for writing, productivity, or even therapy. But lately, I’ve been experimenting with something different. What if we treated AI less ...

i) neutral between the view that consciousness is (to simplify) identical to parts of your brain and what goes on inside of ...

The Ask a Philosopher table appears daily at Suburban Station this week while the American Philosophical Association conference is in Philadelphia. Ian Olasov (left), a part-time philosophy professor ...

Philosophy is a uniquely reflexive activity. It tends to swallow any question about itself and make it into just more philosophy. Other disciplines are different. The history of physics is not physics ...

In an excellent course on the great questions of philosophy, the philosophical psychologist Dan Robinson frames the enterprise of philosophy in terms of the “long debate” about three central questions ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. In a new, talked-about series of essays, Kathleen Stock, a professor of philosophy at the University ...