Issue 84: Progress

Does fear drive economic progress?

What the philosophy of emotion contributes to the Universal Basic Income debate

Lauren Ware

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A radical hope for humanity and the environment

Why we must abandon ideas of pristine nature

Allen Thompson

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How to value your time and not just your money

Why economic growth is a poor indicator of social progress.

Guy Standing

Article

Will gene editing unlock new potentials for progress?

Why are we comfortable modifying the genes of animals and plants, but not our own?

Güneş Taylor

Article

Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years

Physicists face stagnation if they continue to treat the philosophy of science as a joke

Sabine Hossenfelder

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Will We Ever Understand Consciousness?

Why compromises like panpsychism aren't the way forward

Bernardo Kastrup

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How to Achieve Political Progress after Electoral Defeat

It’s essential to see political opponents as our equals, but is that possible?

Robert Talisse

Article

Is Art Still a Vehicle for Progress?

The art world has become ‘part of the problem’, but the next generation of collectors won’t stand for it

Marine Tanguy

Article

Issue 83: Reality

The Evolution of Reality

Why the world is not how we see it

Chris Fields

Article

Who Decides what is Real?

What the Buddhist monk said to the theoretical physicist

Chris Impey

Article

Does ‘Mental Illness’ Exist?

The Problem with Psychiatric Diagnosis

Lucy Johnstone

Article

The Danger of Bursting Bubbles

Why informational bubbles are a necessary part of our world

Ophelia Deroy

Article

The Reality of Psychedelic Experiences

Revelations or hallucinations?

Peter Sjöstedt-H

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The Fantasy of Reality

Why belief in reality is a dangerous mistake

Hilary Lawson

Article

Why Facts Elude Us

Language tangles and competing realities

Joanna Kavenna

Article

Issue 82: A Halloween Special

Why We Should Care About Our Corpse

The political significance of the destruction of the dead

Thomas Laqueur

Article

Return of the Living Dead

Slavoj Žižek examines humanity's fascination with the living dead

Slavoj Žižek

Article

The Metaphysics of Horror

Why we fear threats to our worldview the most.

David Livingstone Smith

Article

The Dark Side

Our fascination with evil and why it makes sense.

Stephen de Wijze

Article

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

What might extraterrestrial life look like? The diversity found on Earth could guide our search.

Lynn J. Rothschild

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Dressed to Kill

How our clothes shape our selves

Shahidha Bari

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Rest in Peace

The origins of Halloween rituals

Diane Purkiss

Article

Issue 75: Quantum

Quantum Theory and Common Sense: It's Complicated

There's more of it in quantum physics than we think

Tim Maudlin

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What Do We Know? A Quantum Perspective

Quantum physics supports a realist framework.

Juha Saatsi

Article

What Is Life?

In order to answer this question, we need to look at the smallest particles

Paul Davies

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