philosophy

How morally developed are you?

If you ask your maps app to find “restaurants that aren’t McDonald’s,” you won’t like the result.

This spring, a U.S. and Chinese team announced that it had successfully grown, for the first time, embryos that included both human and monkey cells.

Many people believe that in the face of profound evil, they would have the courage to speak up. It might be harder than we think.

Regularities, which we associate with laws of nature, require an explanation.

Philosopher and logician Kurt Gödel upended our understanding of mathematics and truth.

Did the 20th century bring a breakthrough in how children are treated?

Reductionism offers a narrow view of the Universe that fails to explain reality.

Could a pill make you more moral? Should you take it if it could?

Once a book is published, who gets to interpret it? Us or the author?

Why are rapture ideologies exploding?

Scientists believe they have the answer, but philosophers prove them wrong.

Because of our ability to think about thinking, “the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape.”

It is impossible for science to arrive at ultimate truths, but functional truths are good enough.

Using urinals, psychological collages, and animated furniture to shock us into reality.

How imagining the worst case scenario can help calm anxiety.

Dancing, for Nietzsche, was another way of saying Yes! to life.

Modern science progresses with an intensity and even irrationality that Aristotle could not fathom.

Think of the nicest person you know. The person who would fit into any group configuration, who no one can dislike, or who makes a room warmer and happier just […]

Are we enslaved by the finer things in life?

Instead of insisting that we remain “free from” government control, we should view taking vaccines and wearing masks as a “freedom to” be a moral citizen who protects the lives of others.

Our brains make snap moral decisions in mere seconds.

Escaping the marshmallow brain trap.

A curated list of must-watch films from Big Think readers.

Democritus also did not believe in free will but was still known as the “laughing philosopher.”

The public sphere should be open to conflict.

Philosophers, theoretical physicists, psychologists, and others consider what or who is really in control.

The ‘reasonable person’ represents someone who is both common and good.

How the German political philosopher called out Henry David Thoreau on civil disobedience.

Most people seem to enjoy liberalism and its spin offs, but what is it exactly? Where did the idea come from?