Articles from category Philosophy

“If I’d just gotten here sooner, with her, things would have turned out differently… Or would they? We ask ourselves that kind of ‘what if’ all the time.”

Can elves and vampires have dark skin? Counterfactual thinking in philosophy – and on the Internet

“If I’d been there with you back then, things would have turned out differently…” It’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t had thoughts like that at some point. On the…

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Romance with an illusion: Is a relationship with a chatbot moral?

The so-called Eliza effect – the tendency to attribute human characteristics to machines – is nothing new. Experiments with the chatbot ELIZA in the 1960s demonstrated how easily we are fooled by even…

Beauty enchanted in a worm: how can we learn to protect even what we don’t like?

A herd of majestic deer or a swarm of insects that sends shivers down your spine. A breathtaking mountain landscape or a dull urban jungle. Why do we find some…