Mind and Psychology

The Forbidden Experiment

What can we learn from the wild child?

  • Rebecca Saxe

What Mind–Body Problem?

Understanding consciousness may be easier than we thought.

  • Alex Byrne

Knowing Our Minds

Why some philosophers say we can’t.

  • Alex Byrne

Do the Right Thing

Cognitive science’s search for a common morality.

  • Rebecca Saxe

Reading Your Mind

How our brains help us understand other people.

  • Rebecca Saxe

Making the Mind

Why we’ve misunderstood the nature-nurture debate.

  • Gary Marcus

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Memory’s Lair

Memory, like everything else in the world, can be clumsily used, or unintelligently used, or used for false purposes or in bad faith.

  • Susie Linfield

Return of the Repressed

The strange case of Masud Khan.

  • Robert S. Boynton

Is the Internet Bad for Democracy?

Emerging technologies increase people’s ability to wall themselves off from topics and opinions that they would prefer to avoid, creating serious dangers.

  • Cass Sunstein
with responses from
  • Jay Rosen
  • Simson Garfinkel
  • Michael Schudson
  • Ronald N. Jacobs
  • Shanto Iyengar
  • Henry Jenkins
  • Robert W. McChesney

How the Mind Really Works

An exchange on Robert C. Berwick and Jeremy C. Ahouse's review of Stephen Pinker's How the Mind Works (BR, April/May 1998)

  • Steven Pinker
  • Robert C. Berwick
  • Jeremy C. Ahouse

Race, Genes, and IQ

Critics of The Bell Curve have attacked every point in the book—except the most important one.

  • Ned Block

The Only Way to Survive

The long-lasting social and psychological effects of the bomb.

  • Robert Jay Lifton

The Piaget-Chomsky Debate

What future for the cognitive sciences?

  • Howard Gardner
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