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.

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In Post-War America, cybernetics inspired countercultural visions of wild complexity. Its Chinese legacy, in contrast, is as an applied science of technocratic nation-building. As the world tilts towa...

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...