Inside Higher Ed

How existentialism shaped—and then faded from—modern thought.

In 1938, while sitting in a cafe on the Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre experienced a pivotal moment of revelation that would shape his philosophical thinking. Reflecting on the ...
Psychology Today

Science, Free Will, and Existentialism

This is the first in a new series of posts, on “Science and Philosophy," featuring interviews with influential scientists and philosophers of science. This is part 3 in an interview series with Bas ...
Forbes

From Existential Threat To Hope. A Philosopher’s Guide To AI

AI was never just a tool to make us more productive, or to help us do ‘good’. It was always also an expression of who we are and what we are becoming. Photo: 7/31/1946-New York. This photo of "Miss ...
Forbes

This Existential Threat Calls For Philosophers, Not AI Experts

Google’s former AI chief, Geoffrey Hinton distinguishes between two ways in which AI poses an existential threat to humanity. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP) ...
Psychology Today

Existential Therapy Is More than Philosophy—And It Works

It can arrive like a collision, or it can arrive in the silence of 3am—the moment when the usual answers to your life simply stop working. You showed up and did all the achieving, and yet something ...