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