The Disenchanted Naturalist’s Guide to Reality

by Alex Rosenberg

This is a précis of an argument that naturalism forces upon us a very disillusioned “take” on reality. It is one that most naturalists have sought to avoid, or at least qualify, reinterpret, or recast to avoid its harshest conclusions about the meaning of life, the nature of morality, the significance of our

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Does Evolution Explain Our Behaviour?

by Raymond Tallis

Does evolution explain our behaviour? The short answer is: No. And you may well concur with that answer but ‘out there’ there is an increasing constituency of thinkers claiming quite otherwise. Along with the claims that the brain explains the mind and activity in one bit of brain or another corresponds

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The Scope of Human Thought

© Mark Turner, 2009
http://markturner.org
Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University

Biologically, we resemble other animals, but mentally, we leave them in the dust. The scope of human thought is vast. Why are we so different?

Animals—including us—live, think, and feel in the here and now. Living, thinking, and feeling are

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John Doris: Do You Know what You’re Doing?

by John Doris

Do you know what you’re doing?

Maybe Not.

In a remarkable archival study, Pelham and colleagues (2002: 474) found that “women were about 18% more likely to move to states with names resembling their first names than they should have been based on chance” — 36% more likely for the perfect matches Virginia

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