is associate professor of moral and political philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Málaga in Spain. She is the author of Contexts of John Stuart Mill’s Liberalism: Politics ...

is an instructor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Old Dominion University in Virginia, US.

It was thought that science could tell us about the origins of the Universe. Today that great endeavour is in serious doubt In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that ...

The famed ‘Christmas truce’ of 1914 occurred some five months after the outbreak of the First World War when widespread, unofficial ceasefires arose on the Western Front on Christmas Eve and Christmas ...

W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them?

After decades of experimenting on animal brains, the US neurosurgeon Robert J White proposed executing a ‘whole body transplant’ on a rhesus monkey in the late 1960s. By performing a complex surgery ...

Metamorphic Lewisian gneiss rock on the coastline of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, formed 1.6-2.6 billion years ago. Photo by Scott Robertson/Getty Images is professor of geosciences and ...

is professor of Latin literature in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She is the author of The Anatomy of Dance Discourse: Literary and Philosophical ...

Since 2012, Aeon has established itself as a unique digital magazine, publishing some of the most profound and provocative thinking on the web. We ask the big questions and find the freshest, most ...

In this entrancing video, the Dutch filmmaker, photographer and artist Michiel de Boer (aka Posy) provides close-ups of a series of square-millimetre surfaces of everyday objects around his home, ...

Generative AI has lately set off public euphoria: the machines have learned to think! But just how intelligent is AI? We can split light by a prism, sounds by tones, but surely the world of odour is ...