Concepts: Pluralism, Etiology, and Neural Implementation

In an even worse – though less likely – scenario, Omicron might cause severe disease in vulnerable people and vaccines might not work too well at preventing serious illness. Even in such a case, there are more proportionate responses than blanket…

First interview in the new  Thinking Out Loud series on ‘Animals and Pandemics’: Katrien Devolder in conversation with Jeff Sebo, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU, on how our treatment of animals increases the risk of future pandemics arising, and…

It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to – while Modi and his allies tell us not to complain Listening to the women who alleged…

I lack space to discuss all of these concerns, but want to remark very briefly on two of the most important. Laplane, L., Mantovani, P., Adolphs, R., Chang, H., Mantovani, A., McFall-Ngai, M., Rovelli, C., Sober, E., & Pradeu, T….

Look a dog in the eye and a conscious being looks back. A being that feels hunger, thirst, warmth, cold, fear, comfort, pleasure, pain, joy. No one can seriously doubt this. The same is true of any mammal. You cannot…

  The myth of eradication Rather than being determined by a particular number of cases or deaths,  the end will require us no longer focussing on such numbers. The attitude we have towards such figures is as important to the…