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Trolley problem tested in real life for first time with mice
Would you kill someone to save five others? The first lab enactment of this classic thought experiment raises issues for how we programme self-driving cars
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Enlightenment now: The rise and fall of progress
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Science isn’t everything 鈥� and it’s not even after the truth
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We must challenge notions that Marx can explain the modern world
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A fine-tuned universe may be controversial but can’t be ignored
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Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come
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Inside knowledge: Why knowing thyself is the hardest thing
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Does a networked world need a new approach to doing good?
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Death: A special report on the inevitable
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Metaphysics special: What is the meaning of life?
Your life may feel important to you, but does it have meaning? It's the biggest of all questions 鈥� and it has more than one answer
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Metaphysics special: How do I know I exist?
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Metaphysics special: What is consciousness?
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Metaphysics special: Why is there something rather than nothing?
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Metaphysics special: What is reality made of?
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