
What's Your Utopia?
Imagining an ideal world can help us make this world better
Imagining an ideal world can help us make this world better
Consciousness will still mystify us even if we scientifically solve it, philosopher predicts
Americans should have a more vigorous debate over Pentagon’s relentless pursuit of “disruptive” innovations
The advocate of "perennial philosophy" held that “entheogens” can provide glimpses of transcendent truths embodied in religions
A historian claims only apocalyptic destruction can close the gap between rich and poor
Philosopher Daniel Dennett tries, once again, to explain away consciousness
Creator of Mathematica and A New Kind of Science remains confident that he can transform science and other realms of knowledge
Psychoanalysis still attracts adherents in spite of relentless criticism and the rise of psychopharmacology and other alternatives
Science Journalist Michael Lemonick answers questions about his new book The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love.
Philosophers react to a science journalist’s critique of their calling
Philosophy’s chief value is countering our terrible tendency toward certitude
The line between philosophy and the arts can get awfully blurry
Philosophers keep giving us moral advice in spite of their doubts about all ethical systems
Protesters who smashed windows and punched police on Inauguration Day are mirroring the violence they supposedly abhor
Philosophers sometimes seem more concerned with winning than wisdom
Philosophy can still serve many purposes, even if it can’t compete with science as a method of accumulating knowledge
A winter solstice ritual helps a faithless science writer appreciate life’s infinite improbability
Mental health has declined as prescriptions for antidepressants and other drugs keep surging
Life might have a divinely imposed meaning, but we’re better off assuming it doesn’t
In a Q&A, Priyamvada Natarajan takes multiverses seriously but not cosmos-as-simulation idea
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