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AI chatbots can’t take responsibility for what they say, so we shouldn’t trust them.
A portrait of Wollstonecraft painted by John Opie in 1790-91.
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Wollstonecraft was ridiculed in her time for the idea that women should be treated as fully fledged beings.
Social media has made yelling past each other all the easier.
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Two concepts can help explain why society seems increasingly unable to agree on basic facts.
That students can cheat more efficiently with ChatGPT does not warrant claims about the death of the student essay.
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We ought to want student essays to reflect understanding, judgment and caring, something beyond ChatGPT.
Which is it?
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A philosopher unpacks the ‘ethics of belief’ for an age awash in bad information.
The Convalescent – Carolus-Duran (1860).
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With euthanasia laws proliferating around the world, Caitlin Mahar’s The Good Death Through Time is a valuable exploration of the history of our shifting views on dying well.
Francesca da Rimini by William Dyce (1837), depicting Dante’s Francesca and Paolo.
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Not all writing about the soulmate is positive – an expert in the philosophy of love explains the concept’s thorny history.
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Stoicism is having a cultural moment, with bestselling books and podcasts taking this ancient philosophy to a new audience. But there are problems with Stoicism, both in its modern and ancient forms.
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Susan Sontag’s sense of the danger of a photographic relationship to reality is not only relevant today, but positively prescient.
Truth is a fact coated in many layers.
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Truth is fundamental to our lives. Human beings cannot exist without truth, but this concept is more complex than we think.
Counterfactuals are claims about what would happen, were something to occur in a different way. For instance, we can ask what the world would be like had the internet never been developed.
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AI models are increasingly being used to make important decision about people’s lives – just take Robodebt. Yet the complexity of these systems means we hardly understand them.
An AI-generated image of two philosophers in dialogue. Today’s AI-driven chatbots follow a rich history of dialogue that goes back to the philosophers of ancient Greece.
The rise of AI chatbots provides an opportunity to expand the ways we do philosophy and research, and how we engage in intellectual discourse.
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Tantrums and overflowing nappies are no fun. But happiness is more than a bunch of pleasant feelings, as influential philosophers have argued.
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The idea of healing benefits and emotional catharsis through reading is intuitively appealing. But does it work that way? Jane Turner Goldsmith finds answers in neuroscience, philosophy and more.
Zhuangzi (c.369-286 BCE).
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Zhuangzi was the gadfly of ancient Chinese philosophy. His paradoxical writings encourage a stance of therapeutic scepticism towards the world.
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A new work of environmental ethics argues that the constitutive value of natural places can be understood in the language of rights.
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You can’t hurt a robot – but do you want to be the kind of person who sinks the boot into a harmless robodog?
Richard Price reading a letter dated 1784 from his friend, Benjamin Franklin.
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He was an important philosopher, mathematician and social reformer of his time. But Richard Price was subsequently written out of history.
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The House of Wisdom was populated by a number of multitalented thinkers – at a time marked by fervent collaboration and intellectual prosperity in the Arabic-speaking world.
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A philosopher offers advice on how mothers could stop being pitted against each other.