Cognition and intelligence

Psychology

A theory of my own mind

Philosophy of mind

Neuroscience

Philosophy

Alison Gopnik: Cognition, care and spirituality

Life stages

Human evolution

Evolution

Science

What animals think of death

Animals and humans

The mind does not exist

Metaphysics

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

We all know that we will die, so why do we struggle to believe it?

Raymond Tallis: what is extended mind?

What do mirror tests test?

The consciousness illusion

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.


Beauty and aesthetics

Bioethics

Comparative philosophy

Cosmopolitanism

Death

Ethics

History of ideas

Knowledge

Logic and probability

Meaning and the good life

Philosophy of religion

Philosophy of science

Political philosophy

Values and beliefs

Virtues and vices