176 | Joshua Greene on Morality, Psychology, and Trolley Problems
We all know you can’t derive “ought” from “is.” But it’s equally clear that “is” — how the world actual […]
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165 | Kathryn Paige Harden on Genetics, Luck, and Fairness
It’s pretty clear that our genes affect, though they don’t completely determine, who we grow up to be; children’s physical
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159 | Mari Ruti on Lack, Love, and Psychoanalysis
Neuroscience has given us great insights into how our brains work. But there is still room for purely humanistic disciplines
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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
A common argument against free will is that human behavior is not freely chosen, but rather determined by a number
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128 | Joe Henrich on the Weirdness of the West
We all know stereotypes about people from different countries; but we also recognize that there really are broad cultural differences
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123 | Lisa Feldman Barrett on Emotions, Actions, and the Brain
Emotions are at the same time utterly central to who we are — where would we be without them? —
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114 | Angela Chen on Asexuality in a Sex-Preoccupied World
Sexuality is, and always has been, a topic that is endlessly fascinating but also contentious. You might think that asexuality
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113 | Cailin O’Connor on Game Theory, Evolution, and the Origins of Unfairness
You can’t always get what you want, as a wise person once said. But we do try, even when someone
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108 | Carl Bergstrom on Information, Disinformation, and Bullshit
We are living, in case you haven’t noticed, in a world full of bullshit. It’s hard to say whether the
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102 | Maria Konnikova on Poker, Psychology, and Reason
The best chess and Go players in the world aren’t human beings any more; they’re artificially-intelligent computer programs. But the
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