John Searle, one of the most astute and original philosophers of our time died on September 17. His enviably productive ...

The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...

Gilbert Harman, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, died at his home in Princeton on Nov. 13 after a long illness with Alzheimer’s. He was 83. Harman ...

Michael Della Rocca, an authority on the history of early modern philosophy, rationalism, and contemporary metaphysics, as well as epistemology and the philosophy of action, has been appointed the ...

Long before self-help culture and modern mindfulness, Stoicism emerged as a philosophy of endurance and clarity. This ...

Thomas M. Powers, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. He is also the director of the Center for Science, Ethics & Public Policy at UD.

A prudent measure given the pace of technological progress. Even if AI doesn’t turn against us in some future robot war, we have to face the possibility of having a future status to superintelligent ...

Bing Shuo graduated from Wuhan University with a BA in Philosophy. He is primarily interested in some topics in philosophy of language, metaphysics and philosophy of science. Outside of philosophy, he ...

I graduated from Lyon College with a BA in Psychology and minors in French and Religion and Philosophy. I have previously worked in private security and with the Federal Probation and Pretrial ...