Encounter in the Vale
A story of hiking, frailty, and glimpsing the divine
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
A story of hiking, frailty, and glimpsing the divine
New scholarship reveals a Bard brooding over the science of his day. What can we learn from his vision of cosmic upheaval?
How Victor Frankenstein’s thoughts ran away from him
The trouble with the idea that we can play God, but ethically
Why digital resurrection is so creepy — and how it’s hastening Hollywood’s decline into a soulless factory
Daniel Dennett’s latest book marks five decades of majestic failure to explain consciousness.
How the process of evolution gave us moral instincts but the theory of evolution undermines moral reasoning
Problems with puberty suppression in treating gender dysphoria