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 ...

Brutal wars, torturous executions, and violent revolutions have always been justified on moral grounds. In order to break out of endless cycles of violence, Hans-Georg Moeller, expert in European and ...

Liberal democracies around the world are under threat. Oxford Politics Professor Giovanni Capoccia argues that there’s a paradox that prevents efforts to defend them. Illiberal movements are easiest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As humans, we are fascinated by beauty in the world. With so much of it around us, it is natural to wonder whether it is a luxury or a necessary part of how we interact with the world. In this ...

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 ...

Quantum mechanics is seen as challenging the idea that science provides objective descriptions of reality outside of our minds. The “measurement problem” seems to suggest that the act of observation ...