Can a butterfly’s wings trigger a distant hurricane? The answer depends on the perspective you take: physics or human agency

For Margaret Macdonald, philosophical theories are akin to stories, meant to enlarge certain aspects of human life

Millions of skeletal remains from South Asia were exported in red markets (the underground economy of human tissues/organs) to educational institutions globally for over a century. It is time to recognize the personhood of the people who were systematically made into anatomical objects and acknowledge the scientific racism in creating and continuing to use them.

How the biblical King David and Machiavelli’s Prince can help us understand the dominant view of leaders as individualists

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In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test.

New research is uncovering the hidden differences in how people experience the world. The consequences are unsettling

A Daoist perspective of history imparts a sense of humility on social actors as their power rises and encourages them to avoid the hubris of thinking that historical transformations are driven by some moral rationale.

Some have thought that logic will one day be completed and all its problems solved. Now we know it is an endless task