True philosophy must ground itself in reality, not untethered speculation. Childlike philosophical wonder is valuable but ...

A video promoting a Los Angeles Somali restaurant goes viral after another X account reposts it, prompting criticism and ...

Anthony Bourdain was an incredible chef and food philosopher extraordinaire. He had strong opinions about what made a restaurant worth dining in, and one of his clearest rules (which he explained in ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Angel Wolfe’s family has been World of Fun passholders for decades. “Since the late 80s, early 90s,” she said. Wolfe intended to continue that tradition. “We’ve been passing it on ...

Some of the biggest challenges in artificial intelligence are being worked on not by computer scientists head down in code but by philosophers lured from academia into jobs at AI firms. The ...

A.I. labs are hiring contrarian, chin-stroking, finger-steepling sages. Who’s underemployed now? Clockwise from top left: David Chalmers, Dillon Plunkett, Rosie Campbell and Robert Long.Credit...Aaron ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Kachka: So Barthes analyzes the spectacle, and Canetti gets into the spectator’s head.

Philosophy has long suffered an unfortunate reputation as pedantic and abstruse. In one of the most prominent debates of the 20th century, philosophers spent a great deal of energy arguing over what ...

For years, ambitious students eager to make their mark in Silicon Valley pursued degrees such as computer science, software engineering and data analytics—formerly dependable pathways that, in the age ...

“It’s probably the best time to be a philosopher since Aristotle was hired as tutor to Alexander the Great,” says Henry Ajder, a philosophy postgraduate who advises the UK government and a slew of ...

Some time earlier this year, an employee at tech giant Meta built a system to track how much each staff member was using artificial intelligence (AI). Named “Claudeonomics” after the Claude chatbot, ...