From Other Places

When robots read books

Where do witches come from, and what do those places have in common? While browsing a large collection of traditional Danish folktales, the folklorist…

How the Enlightenment Ends

Philosophically, intellectually—in every way—human society is unprepared for the rise of artificial intelligence.

The Archaeology of Hope

The Dawn of Everything challenges us to shake off fatalism and embrace the creativity at the heart of doing politics

AI’s first philosopher

When Alan Turing turned his attention to artificial intelligence, there was probably no one in the world better equipped for the task. His paper ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ (1950) is

The Tale of Amo Afer

Kwame Anthony Appiah Tells the Tale of Amo Afer, a kidnapped boy from present day Ghana, who became a philosopher in 18th century Germany

Science Is Not About Certainty

We teach our students: We say that we have some theories about science. Science is about hypothetico-deductive methods; we have observations, we have data, data require organizing into theories.

Group think: why art loves a crowd

When I was very lonely in New York, one of the things that most comforted me was to wander up Broadway or along the East River, alone but in the