If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us how human reason is so much more ...

She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and sustainability was one inseparable, planetary goal ...

We don’t always need new scientific discoveries to save lives and improve the world. Often, the knowledge is already there ...

In the mid-1990s, thinkers pushed back against the idea we’re built by language, turning to feeling and the body instead ...

In the wake of tragedy, an elderly couple must make a choice: should they let their son go to save the lives of others?

A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the traditional Inuit one-foot high kick, competitors must ...

Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind ...

Cicero’s life and thought are a testament to the idea of probabilia: we should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain ...

In tropical forests ruled by aggressive ants, these species have adopted a ‘fake it till you make it’ survival strategy ...

This semester, my students are learning about four polymaths who shaped Islamic science: al-Biruni, Alhazen, Avicenna and al-Khwarizmi. Their circumstances could hardly have been more different: one ...

A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed?

Our kids were playing Settlers of Catan over the holidays. Or rather, they weren’t. They’d rearranged the strategy game’s hexagonal tiles into an archipelago of islands that no rulebook recognises, ...