philosophy
Is the physical universe independent from us, or is it created by our minds, as suggested by scientist Robert Lanza?
Hippocrates overturned conventional wisdom and invented modern medicine.
Must a religious story be confirmed as a true fact to be effective and inspiring?
Being an intellectual is not really how it is depicted in popular culture.
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Diogenes was no doubt odd, but Cynicism might just help our overcrowded lives.
A famous thought experiment from the 1970s is more relevant today than ever before.
No. But Buddhism and quantum mechanics have much to teach each other.
Truth might be hard to find, but we can take steps to eliminate common cognitive biases.
Aliens symbolize the best and worst of humanity. When we dream of aliens, we are pondering our future selves.
Is working from home the ultimate liberation or the first step toward an even unhappier “new normal”?
Seek pleasure and avoid pain. Why make it more complicated?
What’s the difference between brainwashing and rehabilitation?
If you ask your maps app to find “restaurants that aren’t McDonald’s,” you won’t like the result.
This spring, a U.S. and Chinese team announced that it had successfully grown, for the first time, embryos that included both human and monkey cells.
Many people believe that in the face of profound evil, they would have the courage to speak up. It might be harder than we think.
Regularities, which we associate with laws of nature, require an explanation.
Philosopher and logician Kurt Gödel upended our understanding of mathematics and truth.
Did the 20th century bring a breakthrough in how children are treated?
Reductionism offers a narrow view of the Universe that fails to explain reality.
Could a pill make you more moral? Should you take it if it could?
Once a book is published, who gets to interpret it? Us or the author?
Why are rapture ideologies exploding?
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Scientists believe they have the answer, but philosophers prove them wrong.
Because of our ability to think about thinking, “the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape.”
It is impossible for science to arrive at ultimate truths, but functional truths are good enough.
Using urinals, psychological collages, and animated furniture to shock us into reality.
How imagining the worst case scenario can help calm anxiety.
Dancing, for Nietzsche, was another way of saying Yes! to life.
Modern science progresses with an intensity and even irrationality that Aristotle could not fathom.