The decade or so since the financial crisis of 2008 has seen a resurgence of interest in what nineteenth-century thinkers would have called “the social question,” backpedaling somewhat from the ...

Once a year I bake a Christmas cake. I use the same recipe each time. But the results vary. Why? One answer is “naughty elves,” sabotaging some years and helping other years. More likely, there are ...

Elon Musk recently claimed that artificial intelligence will make money itself obsolete. He needs to read the literature of ...

The content of the course will vary from time to time, but it will be based on the heritage of Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). What ...

A transistor that operates with photons rather than electrons is often heralded as the next step in information processing, but optical technology must first prove itself to be a viable solution in ...

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