Tag: Mind and Psychology

Brain images are ubiquitous and compelling, but the science behind them is not.

If there is a moral limit to artistic license, director Alice Winocour has gone beyond it in Augustine.

The success of humanitarian appeals  is not a given of human nature. They work because we have come to sympathize with the suffering of others, distant and alien.

The decades-long rise in IQs suggests that intelligence is not biologically fixed.

The gun in my pocket was a declaration that the city had broken the social contract.

Does e-dating undermine our commitment to any one person?

Should economists be studying happiness?

We are entering the season of the Great American Choice, the quadrennial selection of our leader.

The “culture of poverty” isn’t about moral failure but about reasonable adaptation to circumstances.

Isolation Isn’t a Growing Problem

Have recent events in Afghanistan brought the war to a critical turning point? For U.S. troops stationed there, little has changed.

Julian Barnes asks: How much of what we think makes us special is only a trick of memory?

Philosophers ponder the afterlife.

An interview with Vivian Gornick about the mother of anarchism.

David Cronenberg’s new film, A Dangerous Method.

Understanding consciousness may be easier than we thought.

Why some philosophers say we can’t.