11 March 2019
Socrates in love: how the ideas of this woman are at the root of Western philosophy
Armand D’Angour, University of Oxford Where did Socrates, the foundational figure of Western philosophy, get the inspiration for his original ideas about truth, love, justice, courage and knowledge? New research I’ve conducted reveals that as a young man in 5th-century…
Algorithms have already taken over human decision making
Dionysios Demetis, University of Hull I can still recall my surprise when a book by evolutionary biologist Peter Lawrence entitled “The making of a fly” came to be priced on Amazon at $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping). While my colleagues around…