Here’s the main problem in a nutshell: The technologist is not an ethicist, and the ethicist is not a technologist.

Following a 1976 paper of the same name by Bernard Williams, in his 1979 paper ‘Moral Luck’, Thomas Nagel argued that even ...

Structuralism arose on the continent, in particular in France, in the early 60s. The first ‘big name’ was Claude Lévi-Strauss, an anthropologist, who took on Jean-Paul Sartre, the leading French ...

When the advances made by the Scientific Revolution were applied to machinery, the Industrial Revolution was born. The ...

Alan Haworth on Karl Popper, his vision of a pragmatic, liberal society, and his assessment of its philosophical enemies. It is now one hundred years since the birth of Karl Popper, and almost sixty ...

Articles Wordsworth & Darwin Christine Avery wonders whether poetry can help us to deal with science. In his poetic ...

Films Falling Down Thomas R. Morgan considers how personal identity is maintained, and how it is lost. Falling Down (1993) is ...

The belief that life exists outside of Earth is known as ‘cosmic pluralism’. Intriguingly, this was briefly a topic of ...

Stephen Leach considers what Bertrand Russell thought about common sense & reality – and how the one does not necessarily show you the other. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) believed that reality is ...

A few weeks ago I bought two chrysanthemums for my windowsill. After giving them the dose of water they clearly missed in the ...

Markus Gabriel one of the founders of New Realism, talks to Anja Steinbauer about why the world does not exist, and other curious metaphysical topics. I’m talking with Markus Gabriel, Professor of ...

Why do some physicists now believe that there are many parallel universes very like our own? And if there are, how will this help us build faster computers? Quantum mechanics was developed in the ...