Here’s the main problem in a nutshell: The technologist is not an ethicist, and the ethicist is not a technologist.

A few weeks ago I bought two chrysanthemums for my windowsill. After giving them the dose of water they clearly missed in the shop, I started musing on how closely plant care and philosophy are ...

She browsed further up the aisle, and stopped to consider the plastic deer: cutouts, less than an inch thick but nearly life-size in height and length. The bucks held their antlered heads high. The ...

Films Falling Down Thomas R. Morgan considers how personal identity is maintained, and how it is lost. Falling Down (1993) is ...

Following a 1976 paper of the same name by Bernard Williams, in his 1979 paper ‘Moral Luck’, Thomas Nagel argued that even our moral score-card is partly a function of luck. For instance, it is easier ...

When the advances made by the Scientific Revolution were applied to machinery, the Industrial Revolution was born. The ...

Articles Wordsworth & Darwin Christine Avery wonders whether poetry can help us to deal with science. In his poetic autobiography The Prelude (1799), William Wordsworth describes ...

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In his Introduction to Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1837), Hegel argues that there are three ways of doing history. The first of these is original history. Original history refers to ...

The following answers to this central philosophical question each win a random book. Sorry if your answer doesn’t appear: we received enough to fill twelve pages… Why are we here? Do we serve a ...

Duane Cady tells us why pacifism isn’t sitting back and letting the masters of war have their way. Pacifism rarely gets taken seriously due to a widespread cultural bias: ‘everybody knows’ that ...

Marina Gerner on a thought experiment about consciousness. Imagine a girl called Mary. She is a brilliant neuroscientist and a world expert on colour vision. But because she grew up entirely in a ...