Is your sense of reality in fact a hallucination?
Unthinkable: We don’t know how consciousness works, but some theories are better than others
Unthinkable: We don’t know how consciousness works, but some theories are better than others
Much recent research supports the view that science can describe consciousness
Unthinkable: One of philosophy’s great debates may be down to a misunderstanding
Five Nobel Prize-winners and some of the world’s most brilliant science minds will speak at the Schrödinger at 75 – the Future of Biology meeting, hosted by Trinity College Dublin
Mark O’Connell has spent several years talking to people who want to live through robots and technology, and he admits it stems from his own obsession with death
Philosophers should take the broadest possible measure of beliefs, argues philosopher Justin EH Smith
Irish governments have been slow to draw on philosophers, argues Joseph Mahon
Philosopher (and Capricorn) Martin Cohen says star signs deserve a serious look
Evolution would not have become so contentious had Charles Darwin’s findings come later, argues Prof Peter J Bowler
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices