Menu Distinguishing Between the Conceptual Versus the Empirical Distinguishing Between Descriptive Versus Normative Statements Thought Experiments Annotated Sample of Writing from Philosophy Thought ...

The Ship of Theseus thought experiment is a long-standing problem in philosophy that has been debated for centuries. This philosophical debate has been brought back into public discourse by the rise ...

Is ChatGPT a philosopher? Recently, I asked it to weigh in on some of the biggest philosophical debates – the Trolley Problem, the Ship of Theseus, and Brain in a Vat. Not just for fun, but because AI ...

In the well-known thought experiment known as the prisoner's dilemma, one individual has to decide whether to stay silent or talk to the police about their crime based on how they anticipate an ...

Listen, it’s not that I actually want to kill the sun – I just want to figure out how. But when I told my colleagues at New Scientist that I was recruiting scientists to do just this, I was met with ...

I t must be hard to cover philosophy as a journalist. Your subject hardly moves. Not only does it fail to move the world, it barely budges from its study. Thus the movement called Effective Altruism ...