Noga Arikha
Philosopher and Historian of Ideas, Florence, Italy
Noga Arikha is a philosopher and historian of ideas. She is a senior expert at the Florence School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She is the author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours (2007), The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind (2022) and Franz Boas: In Praise of Open Minds (2025).
Written by Noga Arikha
essayNeuroscience
The interoceptive turn
The science of how we sense ourselves from within, including our bodily states, is creating a radical picture of selfhood
Noga Arikha
essayWar and peace
How evil happens
Why some people choose to do evil remains a puzzle, but are we starting to understand how this behaviour is triggered?
Noga Arikha