What if I were to photograph Sophia—a humanoid robot developed by Hanson Robotics—and then, in a separate session, the ...

The university is reviewing courses under new rules restricting teaching about race and gender. Administrators told a ...

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, ...

Martin Peterson wasn’t surprised when he had to excise two units on race and gender ideology from a philosophy course. What ...

May, a professor in the UAB Department of Philosophy, offers his answers to those questions and many more in “Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science.” He describes the book as a “highly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can artificial intelligence become conscious? This question, once confined to science fiction, now occupies a central place in ethical and scientific discussions. A philosopher from the University of ...