
We are thrilled that David Badre will be blogging about their new book On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton, 2020). You can find everything in one place here (as it becomes available).


We are thrilled that David Badre will be blogging about their new book On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton, 2020). You can find everything in one place here (as it becomes available).

And wisdom to know the difference. The theory can be approached from a number of angles, depending on which Stoic author one finds most congenial: Seneca talks about the four cardinal virtues of practical wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance. Epictetus…

Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication. With reference to your editorial on maths and poetry (8 July) and the mathematician and would-be poet…

In a striking recent experiment, octopus expert Robyn Crook tried the same type of test on octopuses – and they passed too. Octopuses learned to avoid a chamber where they experienced a noxious stimulus (acetic acid on the skin) and…

Submissions may take one of two formats: (1) a paper not to exceed 8 double-spaced pages; (2) an abstract not to exceed 2 double-spaced pages. Some may find that Format 1 better suits philosophy submissions and Format 2 better suits…

To back up this general claim, Smithies argues for phenomenal mentalism, which he formulates as follows: References Necessarily, which propositions you have epistemic justification to believe at any given time is determined solely by your phenomenally individuated mental states at…

What about a point of view of an impartial spectator (pace Hume and Smith)? Isn’t that what we need for morality and isn’t that the kind of impartiality we want? First of all, an impartial spectator is someone who…