Mathematics is the thread from which the fabric of reality is woven, writes Peter Atkins. It is the key to understanding how a universe of tangible objects apparently emerges from nothingness.| IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
When almost any event happens, people on opposing political sides reach wildly different conclusions about what actually happened. So much so that it feels like we are living in alternate realities. Steven Sloman, Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Science at Brown University, argues that in politics, we rely too much on our own sets of sacred values when we interpret political events. We need to understand the psychology that drives our political convictions, and discover how we can us...| IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
Without philosophical thought, Einstein claimed he “would have contributed nothing to science.” And yet, modern science popularizers like Neil deGrasse Tyson dismiss philosophy as largely irrelevant to scientific inquiry. In this article, philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci sides with Einstein and argues for the importance of philosophy in making true scientific progress. Pigliucci shows how Einstein’s sophisticated philosophy, which transcended the rationalism-empiricism dichot...| IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
The spirit of rebellion stirs. From Musk and Milei wielding chainsaws to Trump hanging his police mugshot outside the Oval Office, populists are embracing rebel aesthetics. Meanwhile, quite different sorts of rebellion against tyranny are intensifying from Myanmar to Serbia. Chilean-born philosopher Pedro Tabenksy, drawing on theorists of rebellion Frantz Fanon and Albert Camus, warns that all rebels—righteous or not—risk becoming the tyrants that they claim to resist if they adopt a cold...| IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
The process leading to human extinction is likely regrettable, argues anti-natalist philosopher David Benatar because it will cause considerable suffering and death. However, the prospect of a world without humans is not something that, in itself, we should regret.| IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
