Are the differences in how men and women think innate or learned? In this in-depth interview, Carol Gilligan delves into the biggest studies she conducted throughout her decades-long career as a ...
Serving under three US presidents, Fiona Hill is one of the most highly distinguished foreign affairs specialists in the world. Born and raised in a Durham coal mining town, her father said 'there is ...
Chinese philosophy offers a radical rethinking of human action, not as an outcome of the self’s conscious deliberation, but as a spontaneous, effortless process, utterly in tune with nature. Daoist ...
Quantum physics doesn’t just rewrite our equations; it dismantles our ontology. From uncertainty to entanglement, the theory breaks the classical idea of the world as made of individual objects with ...
We like to believe that reason is our pathway to truth. Yet from Popper’s demand for falsifiability to Darwin’s doubt about the mind’s origins, a more unsettling picture is emerging. Our brains were ...
William Blake and Werner Heisenberg, radical poet and pioneering quantum physicist, shared the same fear: that science, while enabling us to intervene in the world ever more powerfully, was at the ...
What led you to focus your career on dehumanisation? In this exclusive interview, philosopher David Livingstone Smith explores the history, nature, and evolution of dehumanisation. As what is ...
Artificial intelligence is getting increasingly good at solving mathematical problems. A few days ago, OpenAI reported that one of its models had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven ...
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 ...
Why does the idea of genetic determinism have such a lasting appeal? We thought that the sequencing of genetic information would unlock vast developments in medical cures for a whole host of illnesses ...
The Speaker Dr Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and social critic. She is a best-selling author, a columnist for The Guardian, and a visiting scholar at the New School for Social ...
Intelligence is often measured by facts known and judgments made. Schools reward memorization, work requires discernment, while AI now reduces intelligence to calculation. But intelligence is more ...