Things have jobs: pillows are made for comfort, scissors are sharp, and digital devices are made to track your every move ...

Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of?

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One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons ...

A typical university course in the history of philosophy surveys the great thinkers of Western civilisation as a stately procession from Plato to Aristotle to Descartes to Kant to Hegel to Nietzsche.

English subtitles for this video are available by clicking the CC button at the bottom right of the video player. Born into a wealthy Austrian family, the life of Vanja Palmers changed course ...

‘As long as there has been such a subject as philosophy, there have been people who hated and despised it,’ reads the opening line of Bernard Williams’s article ‘On Hating and Despising Philosophy’ ...

It was confusing. When the novel coronavirus hit the world in early 2020, Sweden of all countries chose to ignore the global consensus that favoured lockdowns and severe restrictions. Better known for ...

is a senior research fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and professor of philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Consciousness and Moral Responsibility ...

If you care about animals, you should eat them. It is not just that you may do so, but you should do so. In fact, you owe it to animals to eat them. It is your duty. Why? Because eating animals ...

Here is an easy challenge: imagine you are faced with a tough problem. Life is strewn with problems that need to be solved. And most problems do not require single decisions, like ‘Who should I vote ...

English subtitles for this video are available by clicking the CC button at the top right of the video player. Set in the windswept hills of rural Iran, the short documentary Sarnevesht (Daughter) ...