SpaceX founder Elon Musk speaks during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event on Aug. 25, 2022, in Texas.
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Effective altruism, often called ‘EA,’ is closely linked to utilitarian philosophy and calls for donors to carefully scrutinize whether their giving makes an impact.
A stuffed toy at the site of collapsed buildings after the earthquake in Hatay, Turkey, 17 February 2023.
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It is easy to feel jaded in a time of catastrophe but there is a compelling moral argument for us to work towards a better world.
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German philosopher Martin Heidegger was one of the 20th century’s most feted thinkers. A new book examining his Nazism in light of the now-available evidence, is a troubling, timely read.
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Environmental debates often centre proposals for curtailing emissions, without addressing how we got into this mess and how we might get out. A radical new book ponders the alternatives.
During the 2023 season, pitchers and hitters will be on the clock for the first time.
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In between pitches, it might seem as if nothing is going on. But the game’s drama is still unfurling – you just need to know what to look for.
Details from the poster for Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.
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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once invokes Daoism, the Chinese school of thought that pursues balance and harmony.
People listen to the national anthem of Ukraine during the funeral of Yurii Kulyk, 27, in Kalynivka, near Kyiv, Feb. 21, 2023. Kulyk, a civilian who was a volunteer in the armed forces of Ukraine, was killed during a rocket attack on Feb. 15 in Lyman in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
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Maintaining a functional and lively civil society in Ukraine is crucial to keeping supplies moving and keeping up the morale of the country.
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We talk about ‘fiscal responsibility’ but rarely are a government’s annual accounting exercises assessed in ethical terms.
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AI chatbots can’t take responsibility for what they say, so we shouldn’t trust them.
A portrait of Wollstonecraft painted by John Opie in 1790-91.
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Wollstonecraft was ridiculed in her time for the idea that women should be treated as fully fledged beings.
Social media has made yelling past each other all the easier.
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Two concepts can help explain why society seems increasingly unable to agree on basic facts.
That students can cheat more efficiently with ChatGPT does not warrant claims about the death of the student essay.
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We ought to want student essays to reflect understanding, judgment and caring, something beyond ChatGPT.
Which is it?
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A philosopher unpacks the ‘ethics of belief’ for an age awash in bad information.
The Convalescent – Carolus-Duran (1860).
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With euthanasia laws proliferating around the world, Caitlin Mahar’s The Good Death Through Time is a valuable exploration of the history of our shifting views on dying well.
Francesca da Rimini by William Dyce (1837), depicting Dante’s Francesca and Paolo.
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Not all writing about the soulmate is positive – an expert in the philosophy of love explains the concept’s thorny history.
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Stoicism is having a cultural moment, with bestselling books and podcasts taking this ancient philosophy to a new audience. But there are problems with Stoicism, both in its modern and ancient forms.
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Susan Sontag’s sense of the danger of a photographic relationship to reality is not only relevant today, but positively prescient.
Truth is a fact coated in many layers.
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Truth is fundamental to our lives. Human beings cannot exist without truth, but this concept is more complex than we think.
Counterfactuals are claims about what would happen, were something to occur in a different way. For instance, we can ask what the world would be like had the internet never been developed.
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AI models are increasingly being used to make important decision about people’s lives – just take Robodebt. Yet the complexity of these systems means we hardly understand them.
An AI-generated image of two philosophers in dialogue. Today’s AI-driven chatbots follow a rich history of dialogue that goes back to the philosophers of ancient Greece.
The rise of AI chatbots provides an opportunity to expand the ways we do philosophy and research, and how we engage in intellectual discourse.