Nura Hossainzadeh argues that motherhood is both physical and transcendent. It is often said that becoming a parent is a profound transition. This transition feels different to everyone, since it ...

‘More songs about Buildings and Food’ was the title of a 1978 album by the rock band Talking Heads. It was about all the things rock stars normally don’t sing about. Pop songs are usually about ...

Mahmoud Khatami asks, can machines make good moral decisions? Imagine a self-driving car speeding down a narrow road when suddenly a child runs into its path. The car must decide: swerve and risk the ...

In Escape from New York, Snake Plissken wanted to escape federal prison by entering a second prison, New York City, from which he had to escape in turn.We may one day find ourselves in a similar ...

Jimmy Alfonso Licon asks, when should we prioritise android rights? We should begin examining the question of whether there should be affirmative action for androids by first answering a couple of ...

Vincent J. Carchidi agrees with Descartes and friends that our ability to use language creatively distinguishes our minds from computers. The study of artificial intelligence was originally conceived ...

“To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a computer.” Anon. We are caught between heaven and hell. The skies are full of portents of doom. Oh wait, no, those are explosive ...

The central problem is that the use of AI in the academy poses a threat to independent thinking. It undermines the tension thinking needs for a critical engagement with science and represents the ...

Perhaps unshockingly for someone who is an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer, Stephen Fry has a deep interest in words and how we use them. After hearing him lecture on that ...

The Congolese philosopher and professor of literary studies Valentin-Yves Mudimbe has died. Having emigrated to the United States for political reasons in 1979, Mudimbe lectured at Haverford College ...

Humour Is Laughter Liberating or Cruel? Alfie Bown investigates different categories of laughter.. Comedy has become a pressure point for contemporary culture. It flares up in debates about censorship ...