Confucius
Confucius (551 to 479 BC) was a Chinese philosopher and teacher whose ideas about ethics, family, and good government shaped Chinese civilization for…
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Aristotle
Aristotle (384 to 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist whose work shaped Western thought for two thousand years. He wrote on an…
The Nature of Time
Time is one of the most familiar parts of our experience, yet what it really is remains one of the deepest and most contested questions in physics…
The Simulation Hypothesis
The simulation hypothesis is the proposal that the reality we experience might actually be an artificial simulation, such as an immensely…
The Hard Problem of Consciousness
The hard problem of consciousness is the question of why and how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience, the felt quality…
Free Will
Free will is the question of whether people are truly free to choose their actions, or whether every choice is the inevitable product of prior…
The Anthropic Principle
The anthropic principle concerns the striking observation that the universe appears remarkably fine tuned for the existence of life. Many of the…