The physicist Antony Valentini recently argued in IAI News that quantum mechanics is a straightforward—though incomplete—description of material reality. Today, philosopher and former Director of ...

We often assume that our memories are stored in our brains, just like a hard drive stores data. However, philosopher of time Victoria Trumbull argues this is a radical mistake. Drawing on the ...

We believed that freedom would do the work of equality, that once women could make their own choices, the rest would take care of itself. But studies show that the greater the gender equality in a ...

Some suspect that AI could lead to mass social upheaval, akin to the Luddite riots in response to nineteenth-century automation. However, given that AI supports some jobs whilst undermining others, it ...

Realism promised an objective view of the world, while postmodernism taught us to distrust objective truth and all grand narratives. Today, however, there is a growing sense that neither realism nor ...

An MIT study found that using AI leaves us more ignorant, yet more certain of our own arguments, reducing our capacity to think even as it leaves us more convinced we are well informed. Here ...

Søren Kierkegaard claimed that a self is not a static object, but something one must become, by struggling through distinct, often incompatible modes of existence. Author of Bob Dylan and the Spheres ...

Incarceration is usually framed as the justified removal of freedom of movement. Federica Coppola, Associate Professor of Criminal Law at IE University Law School and author of The Real Pain of ...

The oldest problem of democracy is how do we come to agreement about the 'facts'. We now live in a world where scientists are unable to agree on the nature of reality, and the proving grounds of ...

Time, we are told by most physicists, does not truly flow; its apparent passage is dismissed as a human illusion. Join creator of the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester, quantum physicist Avshalom Elitzur, ...

When the common-sense and religious concepts of the self come under strain, we are quick to jump to scepticism. Many will tell you that the self is merely an illusion. Baggini thinks it is not that ...

With the release of his first book directly taking on philosophy, On the Equality of All Things, physicist Carlo Rovelli takes aim at analytic philosophy's return to realism. He argues that much of ...