Philosophy goes where hard science can’t, or won’t. Philosophers have a license to speculate about everything from metaphysics to morality, and this means they can shed light on some of the basic ...

Can AI help us think more clearly? We often talk about AI as a tool for writing, productivity, or even therapy. But lately, I’ve been experimenting with something different. What if we treated AI less ...

“Right now there are few or no regulations, guidelines, or ethical agreements that have addressed many of the real issues that are facing the world,” a Masthead member wrote on our forums last week.

As the American Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once quipped, "nothing is more absurd than the answer to a question that is not asked." It has become common practice for Catholic secondary ...

The blurred lines between humanity and machinery raises questions in “Ex Machina.” It is not an easy feat, grappling with the philosophical issues that lie at the heart of human thought: what ...

Philosophy is a uniquely reflexive activity. It tends to swallow any question about itself and make it into just more philosophy. Other disciplines are different. The history of physics is not physics ...

While the details vary, in general the work involves prompting AI models with questions designed to test the limits of their ...

A few times each month, second graders at a charter school in Springfield, Mass., take time from math and reading to engage in philosophical debate. There is no mention of Hegel or Descartes, no study ...