It is our biggest blind spot, a bizarre experience that befalls us every day, and can’t be explained by our need for rest ...

Empathy comes in two distinct forms: affective empathy is our instinct for mirroring the emotions of others, while cognitive empathy is our conscious ability to understand someone else’s perspective.

is associate professor of philosophy at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. At 8:30 am sharp, a white van pulls up to Boone Hall, where the Outsiders are huddled in their black shirts, ...

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 ...

How an artist learned to ‘co-live’ with the distressing voice in her head ...

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 political science at Barnard College in New York. Her book Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Day is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

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 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 assistant professor of philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.