The physicist Antony Valentini recently argued in IAI News that quantum mechanics is a straightforward—though incomplete—description of material reality. Today, philosopher and former Director of ...

Constructive empiricists believe that, even if a scientific theory makes numerous correct experimental predictions, we are not justified in believing that it tells us anything about reality--all ...

Brutal wars, torturous executions, and violent revolutions have always been justified on moral grounds. In order to break out of endless cycles of violence, Hans-Georg Moeller, expert in European and ...

We believed that freedom would do the work of equality, that once women could make their own choices, the rest would take care of itself. But studies show that the greater the gender equality in a ...

An MIT study found that using AI leaves us more ignorant, yet more certain of our own arguments, reducing our capacity to think even as it leaves us more convinced we are well informed. Here ...

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 ...

Conscious beings such as ravens, dolphins and human beings stand in sharp contrast to mere things. They are something over and above their body and brain. What makes you you is not your particular ...

Some suspect that AI could lead to mass social upheaval, akin to the Luddite riots in response to nineteenth-century automation. However, given that AI supports some jobs whilst undermining others, it ...

Realism promised an objective view of the world, while postmodernism taught us to distrust objective truth and all grand narratives. Today, however, there is a growing sense that neither realism nor ...

President Xi Jinping has repeatedly said China will "never seek hegemony, expansion, or a sphere of influence." Nonetheless, Western academics like John Mearsheimer continue to argue China will seek ...

Incarceration is usually framed as the justified removal of freedom of movement. Federica Coppola, Associate Professor of Criminal Law at IE University Law School and author of The Real Pain of ...

The oldest problem of democracy is how do we come to agreement about the 'facts'. We now live in a world where scientists are unable to agree on the nature of reality, and the proving grounds of ...