A centuries-old experiment shows the differences between classical and modern physics. Physicists use thought experiments like this to think about how objects move both on Earth and in the stars.
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Media outlets increasingly construct narratives about collective reality based on what’s happening on social media.
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Quantum mechanics is strange. A philosopher explains just how strange, and what it means for reality.
Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s theory suggests there’s a one-in-three probability we live in a simulation.
A new twist on an old experiment reveals several common-sense ideas about reality can’t all be true.
What if the being responsible for creating our world wasn’t God, but some far lesser, far more fallible being like a scientist or video game designer?
This World Philosophy Day we remember three female philosophers who are largely unknown, yet made important contributions to idealism
Three philosophers put up a booth at the entrance to a New York City subway, so people could come to them with questions. They got hit with some real zingers.
Whether the ubiquity of fiction has devalued truth or enhanced morality has been in doubt for over 2,000 years.
Surely no super intelligence would be that cruel.
Alternate realities don’t just exist in politics – and not all falsehoods are lies. Distortions of the truth can range from a normal part of human nature to pathological.
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Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Psychology, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Griffith University
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Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Lecturer on Bioethics & Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine; Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Psychiatric Times., Tufts University
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Reader in Criminology, Edge Hill University
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Associate Professor in Political and Social Theory, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, author of The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad (2020), Durham University
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Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Podcast host, The Conversation
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Philosophy of Physics, University of Oxford
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Research Fellow of Physics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Physics, TU Wien
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Davidson College
