What we learn from Ibn Arabi is we are all Abraham in this world, immersed in the ocean of interpretations. It is our moral duty to exercise our metaphorical cognitive capacity when we are faced with intellectual works, let it…
I use the recent emergence of optogenetics in neuroscience as an opportunity to explore how scientists evaluate their intervention tools. I look at how scientists promoted and defended optogenetics and what they took to constitute its improvement over time. My…
John Bickle, Mississippi State University and University of Mississippi Medical Center The chapter’s fundamental conclusion is that the new experiment tools on whose use our best current theories in neurobiology depend are themselves the product of atheoretical laboratory “tinkering”: “fooling…
The first thing one notices when one enters a neuroscience laboratory are the research tools and their infrastructure. They dominate the space. Neuroscience is a paradigmatic laboratory science. Even in our increasingly “computationalist” times, lab-generated data remains paramount. What Motivated…
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura was an inspirational figure in the history of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and his ideal utilization of time stands as a tall standard for followers to emulate. 08:00 pm – 10:00 pm Rest10:00 pm – 04:00 am Write04:00…
“Lord Chaitanya did not advent Himself to liberate only a few men in India. Rather, His main objective was to emancipate all living entities of all countries throughout the entire universe and preach the eternal dharma. Lord Chaitanya states in…
Bali Mahārāja Surrenders the UniverseWhenever the activities of Vāmanadeva are described in the course of a ritualistic ceremony, whether the ceremony be performed to please the demigods, to please one’s forefathers in Pitṛloka, or to celebrate a social event like…
‘Meaning’ and truth can, then, be conceptualised not as single, fixated and decidable, but as phenomena in a relatively open space of uncertainty and possibility. And communication of and theorising about them can, accordingly, be meaningfully conducted as suspensive rather…
The open access version can be found on MIT’s website. To learn more, see the corresponding chapter of Movement Matters (MIT Press, 2022). Here, I describe in more detail a recent study (Davis et al., 2022) of the representation of…
The open access version can be found on MIT’s website. The 4E-approach to human cognition has opened new perspective to many human activities, to reading and writing among other things. The 4E-approach enables us to focus on the essence of…
The open access version can be found on MIT’s website. When thinking about a child learning about the concept of equivalence with a balance scale, there are many things to consider. How does the presence of the balance scale and…
We had been using the late Steve Pearce and Hanna Pickard’s 2010 paper, “The Moral Content of Psychiatric Treatment”, in teaching the MSt in Practical Ethics at Oxford. In that paper, they argue that moral norm breaking is casually and…
Math teachers use gestures when confronting math problems. For example, a teacher might gesture a geometric shape with their hands, and other teachers might echo this same gesture with their hands. Or a teacher might propose a rotation of a…
So scientists: next time an interviewer asks your opinion on the ethical side of your work, I have two suggestions: And for all that people sometimes talk about a “national conversation”, a conversation isn’t something that just under 54 million…
