(TNS) — Matthew Katz knows you might be worried about “The Terminator.” The Central Michigan University philosophy professor, though, also wants you to consider whether an android — a Terminator or ...

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 ...

This low-prep, high-engagement activity prompts students to debate a question and critically examine their own and opposing ...

Andrew is a freelance writer from UK who specialises in video game news. He has written for What Culture, Rock Paper Shotgun, and PCGamesN. In 2023, he finally caved and bought an Xbox Series X. If ...

If your young child asks "what's the meaning of life?" You might laugh it off (how cute!) or freeze in panic (where do I even begin?). It's tempting to dismiss these big questions as too advanced for ...

Over the past two decades, sustainability has become a key concept in the protection of the Earth for future generations. Experts argue, though, that diverse definitions of the term and arguments over ...

Philosophy goes where hard science can’t, or won’t. Philosophers have a license to speculate about everything from metaphysics to morality, and this means they can shed light on some of the basic ...

The life choices that had led me to be sitting in a booth underneath a banner that read "Ask a Philosopher"—at the entrance to the New York City subway at 57th and 8th—were perhaps random but ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson may be a gifted popularizer of science, but when it comes to humanistic learning more generally, he is a philistine. Some of us suspected this on the basis of the historically and ...

A few times each month, second graders at a charter school in Springfield, Mass., take time from math and reading to engage in philosophical debate. There is no mention of Hegel or Descartes, no study ...