Essay/Philosophy of Mind Change becomes you Being the same person over time is not about holding on to every aspect of your current self but about changing purposefully Kevin Tobia
Video/Philosophy of Mind It’s easy to get caught up in constructing our selves, but what does it cost us? 3 minutes
Essay/Neuroscience Freud the philosopher Before fathering psychoanalysis, Freud first slayed the dominant Cartesian intellectual tradition of mind-body dualism David Livingstone Smith
Idea/Philosophy of Mind If I teleport from Mars, does the original me get destroyed? Charlie Huenemann
Video/Ethics Pain leads to empathy and self-preservation: should we make robots ‘feel’ it? 12 minutes
Essay/Philosophy of Mind I attend, therefore I am You are only as strong as your powers of attention, and other uncomfortable truths about the self Carolyn Dicey Jennings
Essay/Consciousness & Altered States The mathematics of mind-time The special trick of consciousness is being able to project action and time into a range of possible futures Karl Friston
Essay/Philosophy of Mind Telling memories Jewish émigrés from the former Soviet Union tell inconsistent stories. What does this say about the nature of memory? Helen Haft
Essay/Neuroscience Maps in the head How animals navigate their way around provides clues to how the brain forms, stores and retrieves memories Kate Jeffery
Essay/Neuroscience The real problem It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be Anil K Seth
ORIGINAL Video/Virtual Reality New realities are imminent: how VR reframes big questions in philosophy 5 minutes
Video/Philosophy of Language Does the meaning of words rest in our private minds or in our shared experience? 2 minutes
Essay/Computing & Artificial Intelligence Should we be afraid of AI? Machines seem to be getting smarter and smarter and much better at human jobs, yet true AI is utterly implausible. Why? Luciano Floridi
Essay/Philosophy of Mind Consciousness creep Our machines could become self-aware without our knowing it. We need a better way to define and test for consciousness George Musser
Video/History of Ideas If, as Shakespeare suggested, all the world’s a stage, do we have a ‘true self’? 2 minutes
Essay/Philosophy of Mind I am not a story Some find it comforting to think of life as a story. Others find that absurd. So are you a Narrative or a non-Narrative? Galen Strawson
Essay/Illness & Disease A good forgetting Personal identity is tied to memory, but sometimes we find peace, clarity and a true sense of completeness in the lapses Marianne Janack
Essay/Illness & Disease The disremembered Dementia undermines all of our philosophical assumptions about the coherence of the self. But that might be a good thing Charles Leadbeater
Video/Free Will Can we really make conscious decisions, or is agency just a trick of the brain? 2 minutes
Essay/Cultures & Languages From Aesop to doge The animal who speaks in a human voice is a figure of the most enduring imaginative power. What do we hope to hear? Stassa Edwards
Video/Philosophy of Mind A colony of cooperating jellyfish challenges conventional ideas of individuality 2 minutes
Video/Philosophy of Mind A comparative cognition road trip across the US in search of a map of the mind 21 minutes