It is our biggest blind spot, a bizarre experience that befalls us every day, and can’t be explained by our need for rest ...

Could autism explain Virginia Woolf’s unique voice? Her extraordinary eye for detail and connections suggests it might ...

is a doctoral candidate in social/personality psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her work has been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Emotion, among ...

Many people believe that chemicals, particularly the man-made ones, are highly dangerous. After all, more than 80,000 chemicals have been synthesised for commercial use in the United States, and many ...

‘All the acts of the drama of world history were performed before a chorus of the laughing people.’ From Rabelais and his World (1965) by Mikhail Bakhtin The central question that anthropologists ask ...

From late-night calls to unsolved symptoms, uncertainty is woven into every doctor’s day. They should learn to embrace it ...

Suppose we could talk to whales – should we? Experts explore the scientific and philosophical challenges of decoding whale song ...

is professor of psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His latest book is Willpower (2010), co-authored with John Tierney.

is a senior research fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and professor of philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Consciousness and Moral Responsibility ...

Not long ago, in a room very like this one (the setting of most of these stories is both familiar and vague), I was looking for the origin of a video game. Polybius was a coin-operated arcade ...

is professor emeritus of philosophy of science at the University of Leeds, UK. His most recent book is A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics (2023).

is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Fitting Things Together: Coherence and the Demands of Structural Rationality (2021).