Reports say Duke and Duchess of Sussex may have returned to Britain due to ‘top secret’ acting role for Meghan – we try to guess what it might be

Reform UK decided to continue providing its own protection for Nigel Farage, rather than ‘gamble with his life’, a spokesperson said

The UK’s next PM faces some hard decisions. Bringing the failing utility into state ownership isn’t one of them

New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger brains do.

The family of murdered student Henry Nowak say knife crime should be treated as a "national emergency".

AbstractBackground and Objectives. Over the past decade, ageing clocks have become widely adopted as important tools for understanding biological ageing an

EPS Meeting: University of Essex. 1st – 3rd July 2026. This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture by Melissa Colloff (and accompanying symposium organised by Markus Bindemann). This meeti…

EPS Meeting: Newcastle University. Monday 30th March – Wednesday 1st April 2026. This meeting will include the 24th EPS Mid-Career Prize lecture by Elizabeth Jefferies (and accompanying sympo…

On the Relationship Between Science and Philosophy

It’s awkward, nobody seems to know what is going on, and the president’s thumb is at half-mast. It’s almost a metaphor for diplomatic relations between the US and the UK, writes Zoe Williams

Philosophers of mind (from eliminative materialists to psychofunctionalists to interpretivists) generally assume that a normative ideal delimits which mental phenomena exist (though they disagree abou...

The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…

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We estimate the net impact of government policy decisions taking effect in 2025–26 will be a £1.4 billion reduction in funding.

When observing individuals in action, we often infer their goals and intentions. Yet, in situations where actions are ambiguous and could be either in…