Without this history, students may see Black thinkers as footnotes rather than world-historical contributors. As we rise to confront Trump’s fascism, Truthout appeals for your support. Any ...

Here is a story I have heard from more than one professional philosopher, though it has never, at least not yet, happened to me: You are sitting on a plane, the person next to you asks what you do, ...

The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC) didn't use AI to amplify his thinking. And neither should we. Statue of Aristotle at the Athens Academy, Athens, Central Greece, Attica, Europe. (Photo by ...

Anthropic has entrusted Amanda Askell to endow its chatbot, Claude, with a sense of right and wrong.

It's time for America to end its black-and-white thinking about addiction and recovery, according to Johns Hopkins professor Hanna Pickard. Traditional approaches in the U.S.—framing addiction as ...

The idea that an a priori metaphysics must first provide a conceptual framework for science to work at all, to be able to reveal truths about reality, is, as the philosopher Don Ross has aptly put it, ...

I was at the lowest point in my life. I needed a mind-altering jolt. In the end, everything—even the meaning of “everything”—changed. I’m probably missing a few notable cases. But still, for the most ...

In A.D. 415 Christian fanatics attacked and murdered Hypatia of Alexandria, claiming she was a heretic using black magic. Here’s the truth. A detail from Raphael’s 1509-1511 masterpiece “School of ...