(TNS) — Matthew Katz knows you might be worried about “The Terminator.” The Central Michigan University philosophy professor, though, also wants you to consider whether an android — a Terminator or ...

The blurred lines between humanity and machinery raises questions in “Ex Machina.” It is not an easy feat, grappling with the philosophical issues that lie at the heart of human thought: what ...

As the American Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once quipped, "nothing is more absurd than the answer to a question that is not asked." It has become common practice for Catholic secondary ...

The life choices that had led me to be sitting in a booth underneath a banner that read "Ask a Philosopher"—at the entrance to the New York City subway at 57th and 8th—were perhaps random but ...

Over the past two decades, sustainability has become a key concept in the protection of the Earth for future generations. Experts argue, though, that diverse definitions of the term and arguments over ...

Contemporary philosophy has a problem. No one outside the philosophical tribe seems to be listening. The most abstract of the humanities, philosophy grows ever more marginal in academe. As core ...