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Visually striking and intricately crafted, the traditional armour and weaponry of the Kiribati islands in the Pacific Ocean ...

A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

A documentary on the patient labour of building a home away from home and the courage it takes to open oneself to new bonds ...

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It’s not just AI systems that raise questions about consciousness – the products of synthetic biology do too. In recent years, researchers have discovered how to grow cerebral organoids – ...

is professor and personal chair in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in in Scotland, UK. He has published many articles and books on the ethics of suicide, assisted dying, and suicide ...

is professor of early modern British history at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She is the author of The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France (2023). Yet Descartes was not ...

(1976-2024) was professor of business ethics and the philosophy of artificial intelligence at San José State University, and visiting professor of Indian philosophy of mind and knowledge at University ...

I first encountered Martha C Nussbaum in 1987. She was a guest on Bryan Magee’s BBC television series The Great Philosophers. In each programme, Magee would interview a leading contemporary ...

After decades of experimenting on animal brains, the US neurosurgeon Robert J White proposed executing a ‘whole body transplant’ on a rhesus monkey in the late 1960s. By performing a complex surgery ...

The Sun rises every day. Water boils at 100°C. Apples fall to the ground. We live in a world in which objects behave the same given the same circumstances. We can imagine living in a different world: ...