Daniel Dennett

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