Burnout is the product of laziness, but rather the result of an exaggerated life-drive endlessly pushing us forward, writes Josh Cohen. The space and time afforded by Covid-19 lockdown might allow us to work out who we want to be. | Continue reading
Two of the key founders of quantum physics, Einstein and Schrödinger, were deeply sceptical of its implications about uncertainty and the nature of reality. Today, the orthodox reading is that uncertainty is indeed an inherent feature of quantum systems, not a reflection of our o … | Continue reading
Technology is often seen as the engine of social change. But this ignores the cultural forces and changes that enable technological shifts, as well as the fact that technology is often used to preserve the status quo, rather than usher in change, argues Lelia Green. | Continue reading
The Big Bang Hypothesis - which states the universe has been expanding since it began 14 billion years ago in a hot and dense state - is contradicted by the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images, writes Eric Lerner. | Continue reading
The received view in physics is that the direction of time is provided by the second law of thermodynamics, according to which the passage of time is measured by ever-increasing disorder in the universe. This view, Julian Barbour argues, is wrong. If we reject Newton’s faulty ass … | Continue reading
An alternative moral outlook to utilitarianism, would be a better starting point during the pandemic. One that doesn’t lead us to treating others as means towards a greater good, argues Amna Whiston. | Continue reading
The current cosmological model only works by postulating the existence of dark matter – a substance that has never been detected, but that is supposed to constitute 75% of the universe. But a simple test suggests that dark matter does not in fact exist. If it did, we would expect … | Continue reading
Thomas Hobbes famously described the state of nature – the imagined condition of humankind before the existence of central governments – as “war of every man against every man”. This has led many political theorists to think that war is simply the human condition. This thinking h … | Continue reading
A new interpretation of quantum mechanics sees agents as playing an active role in the creation of reality. Blake Stacey outlines the case for QBism and its radical potential. | Continue reading
The Covid-19 crisis has forced us to think about our ethical duties, rather than our rights, explains Hugo Slim. | Continue reading
Monsters are the embodiment of our greatest anxieties, writes Natalie Lawrence. The coronavirus is forming into a terrifying modern monster - an unknown threat we don't know how to fit. | Continue reading
The Covid-19 story will be told by those who recognise the proactionary state of the world, writes Steve Fuller, turning intense uncertainty into a cause for hope instead of despair. | Continue reading
Beauty will not guide us to a new understanding of the universe, writes Sabine Hossenfelder. Failure is part of science, but an inability to learn from those failures is worrying. | Continue reading
After the Covid-19 crisis, all voices must be heard. Margaret Heffernan reveals how deliberative democracy is the only way to make legitimate decisions. | Continue reading
Pandemics are disasters that painfully unfold over a long period. Albert Camus' The Plague can show us how to find hope among the despair | Continue reading
Major social upheavals like the pandemic can lead to fundamental transformations, writes Matthew Taylor. Will we us our Covid-19 experiences to build a better society? | Continue reading
Burnout is the product of laziness, but rather the result of an exaggerated life-drive endlessly pushing us forward, writes Josh Cohen. The space and time afforded by Covid-19 lockdown might allow us to work out who we want to be. | Continue reading
Stoic principle of following only rational facts, resisting speculation and understanding the inevitability of disaster guided Marcus Aurelius through the Antonine Plague, writes Donald Robertson, and could guide us through Covid-19. | Continue reading
While separated by social distancing and quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic, we must learn to appreciate digital connections as being as meaningful as any other, argues Elaine Kasket | Continue reading
The West's reluctance to embrace widespread mask-wearing displays an epistemic arrogance and racist undercurrents, writes Anita Ho. | Continue reading
Does staying at home combat the spread of coronavirus, but doom people around the world to early death at the hands of economic collapse? Philip Thomas applies J-value theory to calculate the costs. | Continue reading
Government intervention is necessary and proper during a crisis, writes Mark Littlewood, but we must not forget the damage governments can do when handed too much power. | Continue reading
Heidegger's being towards death seems to lead us towards nihilism, writes John Milbank. But individual risk as a path to morality is not endangered - death is no risk to human life. | Continue reading
Our fascination with disaster narratives springs from our desire to see moral conundrums played out, writes Stephen De Wijze. Living through an actual disaster, like the Covid-19 pandemic, is not nearly as exciting. | Continue reading
Responsibility for the successes and failure of the Coronavirus crisis will remain up for grabs, writes Christopher Hood, until those in charge recognise the scale of the challenge and start to collaborate. | Continue reading
We all have a moral responsibility to combat misinformation, writes Massimo Pigliucci, especially when we're most vulnerable during a pandemic. | Continue reading
Philosopher and Lucretius expert Thomas Nail explores how being afraid of death is making some people less ethical in the face of COVID-19. | Continue reading
The Precautionary Principle should be our guiding light during the coronavirus pandemic, writes philosopher Rupert Read. We can't trust data modelling when lives are at stake. | Continue reading
Illusionists don't deny consciousness, writes Keith Frankish, but call for a rethink on what it is. This is neither circular nor silly. | Continue reading
Robert Talisse explores US responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and how hand-washing has become yet another partisan issue, in a growing synthesis of partisanship and identity. | Continue reading
Corporate giants shouldn't be applauded for helping to solve crises their own policies have helped cause, writes Linsey McGoey. | Continue reading
John Heil explores why we find the hard problem of consciousness so perplexing and argues that dualism is not necessary to an understanding of consciousness | Continue reading
The hard problem of consciousness doesn't exist, and transpersonal experiential states, not matter, constitute the external world. | Continue reading
Ophelia Deroy investigates different philosophical understandings of consciousness and why collaboration can aid this. | Continue reading
Physicists too easily forget Occam's razor, writes Sabine Hossenfelder. Adding unnecessary detail to hypotheses is bad science. Updating in light of new data is now. | Continue reading