Brilliance and kindness shine brightest when far from the comfortable centre. Even nature is more generative there too ...

Things have jobs: pillows are made for comfort, scissors are sharp, and digital devices are made to track your every move ...

We live in a golden age of technological, medical, scientific and social progress. Look at our computers! Look at our phones! Twenty years ago, the internet was a creaky machine for geeks. Now we ...

is a senior research fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and professor of philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Consciousness and Moral Responsibility ...

English subtitles for this video are available by clicking the CC button at the bottom right of the video player. Born into a wealthy Austrian family, the life of Vanja Palmers changed course ...

Something is amiss with democracy. Ask people from any or no political persuasion and they’re likely to give a similar story: contemporary politics has gone haywire because one side (or both) has lost ...

is a university professor of law and philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the British Academy, and lives in Ontario. Donald Trump’s presidency ...

It was confusing. When the novel coronavirus hit the world in early 2020, Sweden of all countries chose to ignore the global consensus that favoured lockdowns and severe restrictions. Better known for ...

In this eloquent lecture, the Italian theoretical physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli takes audiences on a journey to the edges of our understanding of time. Working from ideas explored in his book The ...

‘As long as there has been such a subject as philosophy, there have been people who hated and despised it,’ reads the opening line of Bernard Williams’s article ‘On Hating and Despising Philosophy’ ...

is professor of philosophy at Central Michigan University. He is the author of Taking Responsibility For Children (2007), co-edited with Samantha Brennan. Calling someone manipulative is a criticism ...

Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of?