They (and their projects) are: The National Humanities Center (NHC) has announced its class of residential fellows for the 2021-22 academic year, and it includes two philosophers. They will be in residence at the NHC in Research Triangle, North Carolina,…

This sets the tone for Stowaway. It’s subtle. It’s sparse. The camerawork is unhurried. The shots linger. The music glides and tingles. The production design builds a near-present-day spaceship that looks designed to be genuinely functional rather than creepy and…

To bridge Laing’s two questions, one must somehow reconcile these two temporal models: linear time, which the Greek called chronos and along which we plot the vector of progress, and cyclical time, or kairos, which is the time of gardens…

“No thanks.” “Do I know you?” a faster gait pepper spray or perhaps some examples of big philosophical questions about the meaning of life, right and wrong, knowledge, freedom, minds, rationality, and crystals. Apart from the crystals, that’s not too…

The specific goals call for Honda to ramp up its share of EV and fuel-cell vehicles in the coming years, starting with 40% of all cars sold globally featuring one of the zero-emissions powertrains by 2030. The share under these…

You can read their whole editorial here. Twenty years ago, most academic journals were available only in university libraries, or to paid subscribers, and hence almost exclusively to academics. Nowadays, many journals have an online version that is accessible to…

The more philosophers are in this database… the more hires philosophy departments can make through this. At a time when the job market is abysmal, I thought it might be good to let everyone in philosophy know about this, so…

Discovery Immersions, a new package of “slow TV” nature programming that Discovery Plus launched Thursday for Earth Day, are meditative, long-form videos presenting quiet shots of animals and nature, turning your TV into a sort of porthole to the world’s most…

For all those years of running from anything resembling religion and all the scientific training that tells me to doubt anything outside of the prescribed confidence limits, I find myself defined these days more by what I cannot see than…

As long as there’s neither hide nor hairOf other grasses graced by other windsOr other treetops bearing other crowns,Other animals as well grounded as our own, just this sleepy backwaterwhere even the stars have time to burnwhile winking at us…

Martínez and Mammola seem to favor the second explanation. At the moment I don’t think we can decide between these two, and I would like to hear what readers find more likely, as well as collect ideas on how one might…