Philosophy

Philosophy

Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.

A whimsical vintage illustration depicts people in Victorian-era attire flying in futuristic airships and vehicles above a cityscape.
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We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.
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Bo Seo, Harvard’s former debate coach, explains a good argument.
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A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
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He lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.
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Short-term thinkers take shortcuts. Take the long path instead, explains futurist Ari Wallach.
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Futurist Ari Wallach shares how to become future-conscious.
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Financial expert Paula Pant explains how you can afford anything, but not everything.
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Debates about the existence of free will traditionally have been fought by two competing camps: those who believe in free will and those who don’t because they believe the Universe […]
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Jimena Canales shares the “demons” that shaped computer science.
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Don’t take the prodigy pathway. Become a broad thinker instead.
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TOPGUN fighter pilot Guy Snodgrass shares his 3 key leadership lessons from the cockpit.
A vintage illustration of a person's head in profile, with diagrams of astronomical and conceptual systems overlaying the brain to evoke themes of consciousness, set against a yellow background.
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Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?
John Templeton Foundation
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WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explains why progress often looks like dystopia to the untrained eye.
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Futurist Ari Wallach asks, "how do we want to be remembered?"
“The more we understand ourselves and the universe, the more magnificent it is.”
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Darwin, Descartes, and Maxwell all believed in these science ‘demons.’
John Templeton Foundation
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What the ‘decade of the brain’ taught us about drug addiction. (Hint, we had it all wrong before.)
Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Holmes – are these celebrity CEOs good for their business?
A clock face with a spiral effect, showing multiple overlapping clock dials against a solid blue background, evokes the question: is time an illusion?.
The concept is so complex that scientists still argue whether it exists or if it is an illusion.
John Templeton Foundation
Catfish taste with their whole bodies – and that’s just one way animals sense the world totally differently than us.