In his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, E.O. Wilson laid out a grand vision for how the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities might be coherently interrelated. Given how ...

Rational artificial intelligence sounds simple on paper: build systems that make sensible decisions based on goals, evidence, and logic. Yet the moment you try to define what rational means, you run ...

Editor’s Note: Professor WERNER HEISENBERG, who was born in Duisburg in 1901, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his work on the quantum theory. A member of the faculty of the ...

An introduction to central philosophical about knowledge and belief, causality and freedom, nature and metaphysics, mind, identity and artificial intelligence, and the problems of moral judgment.

A guide for those that are interested in philosophy, but are having trouble knowing where to start. The list is obviously not definitive and opinions as to how reliable some of the texts mentioned are ...