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Philosophy has long suffered an unfortunate reputation as pedantic and abstruse. In one of the most prominent debates of the 20th century, philosophers spent a great deal of energy arguing over what ...

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“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

“It’s probably the best time to be a philosopher since Aristotle was hired as tutor to Alexander the Great,” says Henry Ajder, a philosophy postgraduate who advises the UK government and a slew of ...

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Some time earlier this year, an employee at tech giant Meta built a system to track how much each staff member was using artificial intelligence (AI). Named “Claudeonomics” after the Claude chatbot, ...

For years, philosophy majors were the butt of jokes about unemployable degrees. Now, some of them are being recruited by the world's most powerful AI companies to help shape how machines think and ...

Source: Wikimedia commons, public domain. Whereas Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel could count as optimists (people who think that human life will improve), Schopenhauer is the first (and last) thinker in all ...

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Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...