In 2006, I published a book called Better Never to Have Been. I argued that coming into existence is always a serious harm. People should never, under any circumstance, procreate – a position called ...

The US filmmaker John D Boswell (aka Melodysheep) is known for crafting meticulously researched CGI documentaries that, epic in both production and scope, probe the deep past and peer into the future.

[I intend] to make a philosophy like that of Aristotle, that is to say, to outline a theory so comprehensive that, for a long time to come, the entire work of human reason, in philosophy of every ...

is a philosopher who teaches at the University of Cambridge. She recently became the first philosopher to perform at Latitude Festival, and writes regularly for Quartz. We live out our lives amid a ...

Work means everything to us Americans. For centuries – since, say, 1650 – we’ve believed that it builds character (punctuality, initiative, honesty, self-discipline, and so forth). We’ve also believed ...

The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them ...

This short documentary is an oddly endearing portrait of Torrington, a hamlet in Alberta, Canada, and the institution at its heart: the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum. Opened in 1996, the tourist ...

is department chair and professor of history of philosophy at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is currently finalising his latest book Socialising Minds: Intersubjectivity in Early ...

An update to Charles and Ray Eames’s film ‘Powers of Ten’ explores what we’ve learned about the Universe since 1977 ...

Today, the philosophical treatise known as the Ethics (1677) by Baruch Spinoza is widely considered a masterwork of philosophy. But at the time of its publication, Spinoza’s radical vision of God as ...

In the events series Letters Live, performers read notable letters – old and new, original and written by others – in front of a live audience. In this video, as part of the Letters Live event at ...

English subtitles for this video are available by clicking the CC button at the top right of the video player. Set in the windswept hills of rural Iran, the short documentary Sarnevesht (Daughter) ...