Philosophy

Do we have good reasons to believe in beliefs? A radical philosophy of mind says no

5 minutes

We may never settle the ‘free will’ debate, but tapping into it is still worthwhile

32 minutes

An enigmatic ‘story of consciousness’ told through 19th-century engravings

7 minutes

Super-cooperators

Clear and direct telepathic communication is unlikely to be developed. But brain-to-brain links still hold great promise

Gary Lupyan & Andy Clark

Philosophy’s blindspot

Education has long been ignored by contemporary philosophers. That is a myopic view that must change

David Bakhurst

The philosopher’s zombie

The infamous thought experiment, flawed as it is, does demonstrate one thing: physics alone can’t explain consciousness

Dan Falk

Embodied cognition seems intuitive, but philosophy can push it to some strange places

14 minutes

How do you know?

Correct information doesn’t always come with its own bright halo of truth. What makes something worth believing?

Nate Sheff

Forget babbling and toddling – mindreading is babies’ most incredible skill

7 minutes

Caring for the vulnerable opens gateways to our richest, deepest brain states

7 minutes

The mind does not exist

The terms ‘mind’ and ‘mental’ are messy, harmful and distracting. We should get rid of them

Joe Gough

You are a network

You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity

Kathleen Wallace

The problem of now

The injunction to immerse yourself in the present might be psychologically potent, but is it metaphysically meaningful?

John Martin Fischer

The body as mediator

The phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty entwines us, via our own beating, pulsing, living bodies, in the lives of others

Dan Nixon