If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us how human reason is so much more ...

In the mid-1990s, thinkers pushed back against the idea we’re built by language, turning to feeling and the body instead ...

In tropical forests ruled by aggressive ants, these species have adopted a ‘fake it till you make it’ survival strategy ...

There is a simple and surprisingly durable myth about what causes men to rape women. It goes like this: if a man is too horny, from sexual deprivation or from being constitutionally oversexed, he will ...

Existing as a Chinese enclave within British Hong Kong for roughly a century, in the 1980s Kowloon Walled City was considered the most densely populated place on Earth. Built 14 storeys high and with ...

is an Irish Research Council postdoctoral research fellow at University College Dublin. His research focuses on epistemology, ethics and the philosophy of mind and language. Humanity occupies a very ...

‘I feel like I’m falling forward into an unknown future that holds great danger … I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping ...

Contemporary historians tell us that, by the start of the Common Era, approximately three-quarters of the world’s population were living in just four empires (we’ve all heard of the Romans and the Han ...

My best friend in high school was tall, lean and pretty. She had a long neck and luscious dark hair, alabaster skin punctuated by a constellation of beauty marks, and a teeth gap that she flaunted ...

There’s a common story of how the Maya civilisation was wiped out: they fell foul of unstoppable climate change. Several periods of extreme drought withered their crops and killed off thousands in ...

Music was ubiquitous in ancient Greece. Now we can hear how it actually sounded ...

Over the past century, a powerful idea has taken root in the educational landscape. The notion of intelligence as something innate and fixed has been supplanted by the idea that intelligence is ...