(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 ...

The physics preceptor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss New York City, interdisciplinarity, and the origins of math.

Philosophy is a uniquely reflexive activity. It tends to swallow any question about itself and make it into just more philosophy. Other disciplines are different. The history of physics is not physics ...

The blurred lines between humanity and machinery raises questions in “Ex Machina.” It is not an easy feat, grappling with the philosophical issues that lie at the heart of human thought: what ...

In an excellent course on the great questions of philosophy, the philosophical psychologist Dan Robinson frames the enterprise of philosophy in terms of the “long debate” about three central questions ...

Not that long ago, most serious scientists considered cosmology a branch of philosophy. But in recent decades, observations by the Hubble Space Telescope and probes of the microwave radiation left ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. In a new, talked-about series of essays, Kathleen Stock, a professor of philosophy at the University ...