(TNS) — Matthew Katz knows you might be worried about “The Terminator.” The Central Michigan University philosophy professor, though, also wants you to consider whether an android — a Terminator or ...

The blurred lines between humanity and machinery raises questions in “Ex Machina.” It is not an easy feat, grappling with the philosophical issues that lie at the heart of human thought: what ...

A new book, Bridgerton and Philosophy: Dukes, Debutantes, and Deep Questions, edited by University of Maine philosophy ...

As the American Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once quipped, "nothing is more absurd than the answer to a question that is not asked." It has become common practice for Catholic secondary ...

Philosophy is a uniquely reflexive activity. It tends to swallow any question about itself and make it into just more philosophy. Other disciplines are different. The history of physics is not physics ...

The physics preceptor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss New York City, interdisciplinarity, and the origins of math.

The life choices that had led me to be sitting in a booth underneath a banner that read "Ask a Philosopher"—at the entrance to the New York City subway at 57th and 8th—were perhaps random but ...

Contemporary philosophy has a problem. No one outside the philosophical tribe seems to be listening. The most abstract of the humanities, philosophy grows ever more marginal in academe. As core ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. At just 14 years old, Edward Gilliam has already decided he wants to major in philosophy when he goes to college. He got interested in the subject when he took a ...

A few times each month, second graders at a charter school in Springfield, Mass., take time from math and reading to engage in philosophical debate. There is no mention of Hegel or Descartes, no study ...