An English professor at Rice University, but one that specializes in ecology and the way it interacts with cultural issues, and a leading member of the object-oriented philosophy movement ... t be a ...

These are some of the weighty questions Scott Sehon tackled in his recent inaugural lecture as Joseph E. Merrill Professor of ...

Associated Press Share Americans don’t put much stock in philosophy — or so I assume ... when you consider the viewpoint of the neighbor being killed. Ditto for that first baby.

Being Human launches with new reporting on the BRCA gene needing a rebrand, by Kristen V. Brown; how the broad support for ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common and sophisticated, its effects on human lives and societies raises new ...

Generative AI systems based on language models produce text that a linguist would call “ ungrounded ”: it lacks the mutual ...

"I've always liked to think of myself as a brain floating through space...[but] our physical condition constrains and expands ...

Human beings need security, growth, "transcendence," and to be of moral service to others and the world. Conditions in life, ...

By The New York Times Critic’s pick Rachel Elizabeth ... is uncertain but certainly shorter than it’s ever been, and not being able to see past the age your parent was upon death.

Most of us have our own view about human nature, whether we side with the more pessimistic perspective or are more hopeful ...