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 ...

‘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 ...

poetry as I need it . Like the negative space against which words become visible (voids emphasised in ...

is a PhD candidate in toxicology at Iowa State University. Many people believe that chemicals, particularly the man-made ones, are highly dangerous. After all, more than 80,000 chemicals have been ...

Religious belief is often thought to evince a precarious kind of commitment, in which the degree of conviction is inversely proportional to correspondence with the facts. Exhibit A for this common ...

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

is a research fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg. His books include A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection (2021) and The ...

is professor of microbiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago. His books include Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms (1997), co-edited with Martin ...

is a leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology. He is an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University in California and at Teachers College, Columbia University in New ...

is professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester, UK.

is the Theda Perdue Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature (2009) ...