Themed Articles

Can Machines Be Conscious?

Sebastian Sunday Grève and Yu Xiaoyue find an unexpected way in which the answer is ‘yes’.
[Issue 155: April/May 2023]

Ergoing Nowhere

Noah Harris says Descartes failed to find absolute foundations for knowledge.
[Issue 155: April/May 2023]

Descartes & Stupidity

Trevor Pateman asks: stupidity – essence, or accident?
[Issue 155: April/May 2023]

How Descartes Inspired Science

Kanan Purkayastha has both general and special theories about how the master rationalist inspired modern empirical science.
[Issue 155: April/May 2023]

One Logic, Or Many?

Owen Griffiths and A.C. Paseau try to count them.
[Issue 154: February/March 2023]

Humans, the Believing Animals

Aristotle says humans are rational animals but Kevin Currie-Knight argues that our capacity for belief is even more fundamental.
[Issue 154: February/March 2023]

World Wide Web or Library of Babel?

Marco Nuzzaco wants us to see the net as something more than a library.
[Issue 154: February/March 2023]

Postmodern Flames In Brazil

Marcos A. Raposo asks if postmodernism can survive science, and vice versa.
[Issue 154: February/March 2023]

6 Signs You’ve Taken The Blue Pill

Lewis Vaughn tells you how you can know whether you’re a conspiracy theorist.
[Issue 154: February/March 2023]

Bricolage: Natural Epistemology

D.E. Tarkington picks up ways of gaining truth, with inspiration from Deleuze, Guattari, and other continentals.
[Issue 154: February/March 2023]

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