The strange story of how a man who Bertrand Russell and the Bloomsbury Group looked on as a god ended up almost completely forgotten. prospectmagazine.co.uk
Conscious-ness is a famously hard problem, so Hod Lipson is starting with self-aware robots that can help us understand how we think. quantamagazine.org
After the First World War, the Vienna Circle tried to put European thought on a rigorously logical footing. Then the times caught up with them. newyorker.com
Ten years ago, a manuscript of Spinoza’s Ethics was discovered in the archives of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. the-tls.co.uk
What made you become a philosopher? Was it always something you felt drawn to or was it a surprise? Richard Marshall interviews Huw Price. 316am.site123.me
A model involving backward causation could help unite quantum mechanics and general relativity—and satisfy an old challenge thrown down by Arthur Eddington. fqxi.org
Growing up in Australia, I loved to lie on the grass, immersed in the scent of wattles, and stare up at the sky. Margaret Wertheim ponders how consciousness came to be a problem. aeon.co
A philosopher’s hoax embarrasses several academic journals but Peter Boghossian’s employer, Portland State University, does not see it that way. psmag.com
His great theory defeated the finest minds of the century and rescued the idea that there are truths that humans can never prove. prospectmagazine.co.uk