The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose?

Philosophers have often held that the antidote to despair is hope, and that hope is temporally oriented towards the future. How do such accounts fare, however, when faced with the prospect of human...

YouTube video by Rotman Institute of Philosophy

YouTube video by Rotman Institute of Philosophy

Hamish Linehan (University of Stirling) and Matthew Sims (Macquarie University)

Colonial suburbia and the difficulties of acknowledgement

Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.

Collectives exhibit intrinsically different operations, resources and limitations depending on whether their components are static or mobile. Werfel examines learning in mobile collectives and shows h...

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to be...

Physical sensations of tingling, warmth, dull pain, and heaviness are a common phenomenon in mind-body interventions, such as acupuncture, hypnotherapy, osteopathy, qigong, meditation, and progressive...

Podcast Episode · Macrodose · 2 April · 48min

This is the first part of an interview with Peter Wolfendale. Peter Wolfendale is an independent philosopher and leading voice in contemporary Neorationalism. Currently a resident in Yokohama, Japa…

Flexible, abstract rhythm perception underpins human music, dance, and speech, but thus far, it has only been demonstrated in a few birds and mammals. In this work, we show that bumble bees also form ...

Abstract. How ought scarce health research resources be allocated, where health research spans basic, translational, clinical, health systems and public he

Podcast Episode · Today in Focus · 30 March · 24min

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The journal Marxism & Sciences has announced a special issue on Dialectics and Life, calling for abstracts that explore the crucial relation between dialectical thinking and the complex entanglement o...

As AI large language models (LLMs) become increasingly embedded in everyday technologies, should we be concerned about their capacity to influence hum…