Brilliance and kindness shine brightest when far from the comfortable centre. Even nature is more generative there too ...

Things have jobs: pillows are made for comfort, scissors are sharp, and digital devices are made to track your every move ...

Something is amiss with democracy. Ask people from any or no political persuasion and they’re likely to give a similar story: contemporary politics has gone haywire because one side (or both) has lost ...

is a senior research fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and professor of philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Consciousness and Moral Responsibility ...

English subtitles for this video are available by clicking the CC button at the bottom right of the video player. Born into a wealthy Austrian family, the life of Vanja Palmers changed course ...

is a university professor of law and philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the British Academy, and lives in Ontario. Donald Trump’s presidency ...

What year is it? It’s 2019, obviously. An easy question. Last year was 2018. Next year will be 2020. We are confident that a century ago it was 1919, and in 1,000 years it will be 3019, if there is ...

In this eloquent lecture, the Italian theoretical physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli takes audiences on a journey to the edges of our understanding of time. Working from ideas explored in his book The ...

is professor of philosophy at Central Michigan University. He is the author of Taking Responsibility For Children (2007), co-edited with Samantha Brennan. Calling someone manipulative is a criticism ...

It was confusing. When the novel coronavirus hit the world in early 2020, Sweden of all countries chose to ignore the global consensus that favoured lockdowns and severe restrictions. Better known for ...

‘As long as there has been such a subject as philosophy, there have been people who hated and despised it,’ reads the opening line of Bernard Williams’s article ‘On Hating and Despising Philosophy’ ...

Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of?