philosophy

It’s not often that a paper attempts to take down an entire field. Yet, this past January, that’s precisely what…

CBS already had a show called God Friended Me, about people who do good deeds at the direction of what appears to be…

It wasn’t just the characters who needed to learn what it meant to be good on NBC’s The Good Place, it was the show…

A disgusting factor which separates consuming human flesh from consuming muscle tissue of non-speaking animals is…

Films and TV shows like Blade Runner, Humans, and Westworld, where highly advanced robots have no rights, trouble…

It’s a reasonable goal to want everyone on Earth to be more moral. Maybe there’d be less suffering, and people would…

Courts in New Zealand and India have granted legal personhood status to three rivers. The strange status is meant to…

It’s not the fault of Hollywood or Netflix or even the internet. Or, well, it’s not all their fault. We’re to blame…

In a vat of liquid nitrogen on storage platform 17, the youngest person ever to be put into cryogenic storage has…

Jupiter is often referred to as a “failed star,” leading some futurists to wonder if our descendants might set it…

The future looks bright, except when it doesn’t. Here are 10 exceptionally regrettable developments we can expect in…

The disturbing Fermi Paradox suggests we should have made contact with an extraterrestrial civilization by now, yet…

We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a…

Each year, Edge.org editor John Brockman poses a provocative question to a select group of thinkers. For this year’s…

The Knobe Effect is a psychological double-standard that allows us to blame people for a bad outcome, yet not give…

Stelarc has made a career of blending his body with technology. In his latest work, the Australian performance…

Here’s a nice, simple topic for first thing on a Friday morning: do numbers really exist? Well, do they?

European languages often use the same word for “story” and “history,” but many English speakers regard these words…

Imagine the day when we finally receive a signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence, only to find that there’s a…

When moral philosopher Gary Steiner first adopted his cat Pindar, the vet advised him to put the cat to sleep. A…