Andrei A Buckareff is professor of philosophy and co-director of the cognitive science programme at Marist College in New York. His works include Causing Human Actions: New Perspectives on the Causal ...

The contemporary obsession with feeling good might mean we’re losing sight of what makes life genuinely meaningful ...

Formality: roughly, how formal and public a relationship is vs informal and private; Exchange: how much it involves trading concrete resources like money vs intangible things like affection; and ...

Ecstatic moves, magic moments – this animated short documentary details one basketball fan’s love of the arena’s big screen ...

I swim to think and to stay afloat in an ever-wetter world ‘The Beames my Bones, my flesh the plankes’: in pools, I glimpse the future of our terrestrial bodies in an ocean world by Steve Mentz SACRED ...

Something curious happens in two people’s brains during supportive interactions. It could help explain their emotional power ...

I was 11 the first time I saw her. It was September – at least, I think it was. The trees were shedding. The mountains, ripening from green to red. Mom remembers it as September, too, but Dad says it ...

Far more than an evolutionary imperative, caregiving is a gateway to our deepest humanity, and may explain our intelligence ...