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Artificial Intelligence and Data Harvesting: An Interview with Carissa Véliz 

An exploration of the risks and benefits of AI, particular regarding privacy.

By Carissa Véliz and Stephen Law
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Ayer on Religious Language 

Here is a brief introduction to Ayer's radical criticism of religious belief. According to Ayer, a sentence like ‘God exists’ doesn't assert something false; rather, it fails to assert anything at all.

By Stephen Law
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Introducing Metaethics 

We often describe actions as good, bad, right, wrong, fair, unkind, deserved, disrespectful, a bit much, and so on. This article asks: Do these terms describe facts about our actions? And do those facts tell us to perform certain actions and refrain from performing others? If so, what exactly does that mean? And, if not, what are we doing when we describe actions in these various ways?

By Zoë Johnson King
Philosophy

We Are Not Human Beings 

In this article, Parfit explores the questions of personal identity and numerical identity - what we are and how we might continue to exist. 

By Derek Parfit
Philosophy

A Reasonable Frugality 

Our choices and actions could ensure the perpetual future of life… or, in contrast, through malign intent or through misadventure, misdirected technology could jeopardize life's potential, foreclosing its human and post-human future.

By David Wiggins
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God and Morality 

Richard Swinburne argues that the existence of God is not a precondition of there being moral truths, but that his existence does impact on what moral truths there are.

By Richard Swinburne
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Mathematics: Discovery or Invention? 

How is it possible for there to be an ontology of mathematical objects set apart from the familiar ontology of physical things and from the familiar ontology of mental things?

By Kit Fine
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It's Not Brains or Personality so It Must Be Looks: Why Women Give Up on Philosophy 

A discussion of the under-representation of women in academic philosophy, focusing on the perception both of the nature of women and of the nature of philosophy itself.

By Sally Latham
Philosophy

Infinitesimals, Nations, and Persons: In memoriam D.A.P. 11 December 1942 − 1 January 2017 

Ian Rumfitt compares three sorts of case in which philosophers have argued that we cannot assert the Law of Excluded Middle for statements of identity.

By Ian Rumfitt