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Anthropic now bans “cruelty” toward Claude.

Nearly everyone knows about Jeffrey Epstein.

Writing a guide for skeptics on environmental issues is a little like trying to summarize “religion” in one article—it’s a huge topic!

In September 2026, a 27-year-old researcher named Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and posted a series of warnings on 𝕏.

As AI takes on more of the work we once did ourselves, there’s growing concern about what happens to the skills we’re no longer practicing.

When I was an undergraduate philosophy student, my plan was to do graduate study in Christian apologetics under Dr.

In May 1957, Life magazine published a hugely popular and tremendously influential article entitled “Seeking the Magic Mushroom.”

For ten years, I have been a professor of philosophy at a Moroccan public university that uses English as the language of instruction and employs a liberal arts pedagogical model.

A review of the 2026 satirical black comedy film Digger directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu starring Tom Cruise and John Goodman, released by Warner Bros.

We spent the twentieth century beating measles, polio, and newborn hepatitis B into statistical irrelevance.

Recent surveys, followed by extensive media coverage of their findings, show that American liberals—and liberal young women in particular—are more likely than conservatives to self-identify as having struggled with anxiety and depression.

This is a reply to Gary J.

I’m grateful to Skeptic for publishing my article “The Hard Problem of Consciousness is a Soluble One,” along side Michael Shermer’s article “The Hard Problem of Consciousness Is an Insoluble One” (September 2026).

Modern life makes it easy to forget the world in which we evolved (the EEA—Environment of our Evolutionary Adaptedness).

Suppose you are shown a shadow moving across a wall.

In the foreword to Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith, Richard Dawkins invites us to take an imaginative journey back thousands of years in human history, to a moment in Africa when we are a small hunter-gatherer hominin wan…

Consciousness is often defined as “what it’s like to be something,” inspired by the philosopher Thomas Nagel’s 1974 classic paper, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”

It has now been over 30 years since Australian philosopher David Chalmers posed the “Hard Problem of Consciousness,” one that has intrigued philosophers of mind, neuroscientists, and psychologists ever since.1 The problem can be summarized in three “what,…

Following a public lecture I gave in 2005 at the L.A.

Stand at the edge of the Grand Canyon and something happens in your chest that a photograph can never capture.

Several decades ago, when I was a student at the Chouinard Art School, out of curiosity I dropped in at a local Scientology center.

To most of us, at least at a first glance, maps appear to describe reality.

The social, political, and economic factors that lead people to believe in non-existent beings Humans love patterns.

This is a response to Klaus Ziegler’s critique of my moral case for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

This is a critique of Michael Shermer’s moral case for dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Through the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA),1 the U.S.