Embracing Catastrophe

Josh explains that to survive the next century or two – to navigate our existential threats – all of us will have to become informed and involved. It will take a movement that gets behind science done right to make it through the Great Filter. (Original score by Point Lobo.) Inte ...  Show more

There’s one last thing. Maybe the reason why we don’t see other intelligent life, maybe the reason we are in the astoundingly unique position of having to save the future of the human race, is because we are simulated human beings. It would explain a lot. (Original score by Point ...  Show more

Should we follow our philosophical conclusions wherever they take us? Or is there a hard wall of common sense that we are beholden to?

Listen to some of today's leading philosophers in science and metaphysics as they talk it out!

Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philoso ...

It is common to refer to philosophy as "a series of footnotes to Plato." But in the original quote, Alfred North Whitehead was more careful: he limited his characterization to "the European philosophical tradition." There are other traditions, both ancient and ongoing: Chinese ...

Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, and the technology trap with Babette Babich

Babette Babich discusses Nietzsche, the importance of tragedy, and the danger of technology interfering with our judgement. Babette Babich is a world renowned Professor of Philo ...

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Many see the search for universal truths about the world as the noble aim of philosoph ...