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 ...

Love, in the world of Walt Disney films, has changed. Between Tangled (2010) and Moana (2016), the ideal of heterosexual romance has been dethroned by a new ideal: family love. The happy ending of our ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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

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) ...

is assistant professor of government at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. His research focuses on the history of democratic thought and, especially, on early attempts to understand and theorise ...

is professor of philosophy and honorary research fellow at University College London. His books include Aesthetic Creation (2007) and Music and Aesthetic Reality (2015).