“Laughter is the condition of ideology. It provides us with the distance, the very space in which ideology can take its full swing. It is only with laughter that we become ideological subjects… It is ...

Digital Philosophy Rescuing Mind from the Machines Vincent J. Carchidi agrees with Descartes and friends that our ability to use language creatively distinguishes our minds from c ...

This article explores AI’s ethical challenges, including bias, privacy, and accountability. These issues, from fairness to trust, impact everyday life. So as we navigate this new era, we must ask: How ...

Though social media has long been the bearer of bad news, many people have taken to creating under the hash-tag ‘Hopecore’ – a term first coined around March 2023, which continues to increase in use.

• Renowned as an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, and writer, Stephen Fry is also a Patron of SAPERE (soon to be called Thoughtful) the charity for philosophical enquiry. His books include The ...

In the tumultuous political landscape of ancient Rome, few stories better illustrate the ideal of moral courage than that of Helvidius Priscus, a Roman senator who faced Emperor Vespasian with ...

An omnipotent God would, it seems, have some explaining to do to. For Goff and some theologians, the explanation is to be found in the idea that the deity, though benevolent, has limited power. So, as ...

Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho), the Japanese toilet cleaner protagonist of Wim Wenders’ 2023 Academy Award Winning Film Perfect Days, is the anti-Sisyphus.

‘More songs about Buildings and Food’ was the title of a 1978 album by the rock band Talking Heads. It was about all the things rock stars normally don’t sing about. Pop songs are usually about ...

“To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a computer.” Anon.

Fiction René Descartes Loses His Phone Judah Crow follows Descartes as he seeks that which one must have always. I remember when René Descartes lost his cell phone. He’d come ...