Crusoe at the Crossroads
On Robinson Crusoe, Lost, New Atlantis, and why we keep returning to mysterious islands where science blurs with the supernatural
Mind & Human Nature
What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t
What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t
On Robinson Crusoe, Lost, New Atlantis, and why we keep returning to mysterious islands where science blurs with the supernatural
The sage of physics takes on politics and philosophy — and dreams of science’s last day
New scholarship reveals a Bard brooding over the science of his day. What can we learn from his vision of cosmic upheaval?
Daniel Dennett’s latest book marks five decades of majestic failure to explain consciousness.
On biology’s unasked questions about the goal-directed activities of organisms
Why we talk in circles about experience
The gaps between scientific explanation and human experience
