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Human Nature and the Human Future: Emotional Amoral Egoism, by Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

Certain questions have vexed philosophers for millennia: What is human nature? Do we have free will? How can we build healthy societies? Are we motivated more by emotion or by…

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13 min

Constitutions, Frontiers, Revelations and Truths: New Books by Jonathan Rauch, A. C. Grayling, Erik Hoel and Salman Rushdie

This article consists of reviews of four books that, while different in many ways, have certain things in common. Some of the connections are fairly direct—A. C. Grayling’s The Frontiers…

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11 min

The Neuroscience of Intellectual Openness

How is it that some people feel energised by the thought of fierce debate and keen to have their beliefs challenged and their minds potentially changed, while others appear unwilling…

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4 min

Working from Home: A Neuroscientific Perspective

A recent study by the multinational PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) shows that many companies want their employees back in the office faster than staff members would prefer. While 75% of the companies surveyed anticipate…

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5 min

Science & Tech

Brain Enhancement: Is It Ethical?

Our scientific advancements have made it possible to alter brain function and to monitor and manipulate the human mind. Neurocognitive interventions can assist those who seek to regain normal brain…

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9 min

Science & Tech

Why Neuroscientists Still Cannot Read Your Mind

Last October, in a live demo, Neuralink finally revealed their new prototype: a coin-shaped device that connects with the brain by means of electrodes thinner than a human hair. The…

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12 min

Social Distancing: A Neurophilosophical Perspective

The COVID19 pandemic is poised to become the single most disruptive event of our generation. At the time of writing, the pandemic has already started to profoundly alter our ways…

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11 min

Philosophy

Free Will, the Libet Experiments and the War on Terror

On 10 September 2019, a headline in the Atlantic announced, “A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked.” The argument in question was based on the findings of what…

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12 min

Annaka Harris’s “Conscious” and the Trap of Dualism

Annaka Harris’s recent book Conscious presents a concise and well-written exploration of consciousness, with an emphasis on the mystery of subjective experience. Harris approaches this difficult topic from a secular,…

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10 min

Psychology

Who or What Are We Human Mammalia, Really?

Warning Assimilation of the concepts herein may lead to mental anxiety if the external world is believed to be reality. Who or What Are We? We have an unbroken lineal…

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8 min

Politics

The Ideological Reflex and the Culture of Reason

Plato’s Socratic dialogues—in which Socrates questions and argues with a variety of interlocutors who claim to know the nature of such things as justice and virtue—are known for their exhortation…

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7 min

Review

The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio: Book Review

Feelings are the mental expressions of homeostasis, while homeostasis, acting under the cover of feeling, is the functional thread that links early life-forms to the extraordinary partnership of bodies and…

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Neuroscience

Human Nature and the Human Future: Emotional Amoral Egoism, by Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

Constitutions, Frontiers, Revelations and Truths: New Books by Jonathan Rauch, A. C. Grayling, Erik Hoel and Salman Rushdie

The Neuroscience of Intellectual Openness

Working from Home: A Neuroscientific Perspective

Brain Enhancement: Is It Ethical?

Why Neuroscientists Still Cannot Read Your Mind

Free Will, the Libet Experiments and the War on Terror

Annaka Harris’s “Conscious” and the Trap of Dualism

Who or What Are We Human Mammalia, Really?

The Ideological Reflex and the Culture of Reason

The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio: Book Review

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