A lecture to honor Professor Jay Garfield on the occasion of his upcoming retirement from Smith College Challenging essentialist metaphysical perspectives East and West, Madhyamaka or the ‘Middle Way’ ...

The author is a professor of art history and visual philosophy at Hongik University. Seeing is linked to understanding. In English, the phrase “I see” means not only “I perceive with my eyes” but also ...

Growing up in the US during the oil embargo of the early 1970s, I was bombarded by public service announcements encouraging people to conserve energy. But at a very young age, I also read that “energy ...

From ancient Greek philosopher Plato to Neo, hero of the dystopian film fantasy The Matrix, humans have long pondered the true nature of reality. Can we trust what we see, taste, touch, smell, and ...

Frank Wilczek has one of the most brilliant and original minds in theoretical physics, having come up with the idea of time ...

A new wave of delusional thinking fueled by artificial intelligence has researchers investigating the dark side of AI ...

In my previous blog post, I reviewed the published evidence that the use of psychedelic drugs—also known as entheogens—can change our religious beliefs. For example, several studies based on ...

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis avoids LSD, preferring gaming and reading for insights into life's deeper questions. Hassabis recently told Wired's Steven Levy that he values his mental acuity for ...