Philosophy of mind

Philosophy

Karl Friston: embodied cognition

Cognition and intelligence

Metaphysics

Knowledge

How do you know?

Values and beliefs

Human evolution

Science

Homo imaginatus

The development of mindreading

Childhood and adolescence

Life stages

Psychology

A theory of my own mind

Neuroscience

Alison Gopnik: Cognition, care and spirituality

Evolution

What animals think of death

Animals and humans

The mind does not exist

Psychiatry and psychotherapy

You are a network

Gender and identity

Society

The joy of being animal

Myth and the mind

Rituals and celebrations

The problem of now

Philosophy of language

Thinkers and theories

The body as mediator

Technology and the self

How close is too close?

On the same wavelength

The value of uncertainty

Biology

The face of the fish

How we build perception from the inside out

Consciousness and altered states

Personality

Scars

Wellbeing

Frames of consciousness

Think of mental disorders as the mind’s ‘sticky tendencies’

Mental health

You are the world

Consciousness is real

Donald Hoffman: the case against reality

Essays and videos on philosophy, the history of ideas, ethics and life’s big questions

Philosophy Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore life’s big questions and the history of ideas from Socrates to Simone de Beauvoir, political philosophy to philosophy of mind, the Western canon and the non-Western world.
