Mathematician and scientist Stephen Wolfram grew up in a household where his mother was a philosophy professor at Oxford University. As such, his younger self didn’t want anything to do with the ...

(TNS) — Matthew Katz knows you might be worried about “The Terminator.” The Central Michigan University philosophy professor, though, also wants you to consider whether an android — a Terminator or ...

This low-prep, high-engagement activity prompts students to debate a question and critically examine their own and opposing positions.

The life choices that had led me to be sitting in a booth underneath a banner that read "Ask a Philosopher"—at the entrance to the New York City subway at 57th and 8th—were perhaps random but ...

If your young child asks "what's the meaning of life?" You might laugh it off (how cute!) or freeze in panic (where do I even begin?). It's tempting to dismiss these big questions as too advanced for ...

In an excellent course on the great questions of philosophy, the philosophical psychologist Dan Robinson frames the enterprise of philosophy in terms of the “long debate” about three central questions ...

We associate technology with the shiny and new. But humans have been using technology to change the environment and themselves since at least the lower Paleolithic period, when our ancestors were ...

To appreciate that some questions are better than others, it helps to consider a few examples of questions that are bad. To find them, try playing Twenty Questions with a young child. In trying to ...