Diseases of the Mind: Philosophy of Psychiatry
November 19, 2017
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is the primary reference catalog for mental health illnesses. But…
Mind Tagged Episodes
The Phenomenology of Lived Experience
April 23, 2017
Phenomenology is the philosophical study of experience and consciousness, performed by philosophers ranging from Sartre…
The Limits of Self-Knowledge
June 26, 2016
Descartes considered the mind to be fully self-transparent; that is, he thought that we need…
Memes: Viruses of the Mind?
April 24, 2016
Gangnam style, Lolcats, and Chuck Norris’ superhuman feats are all memes – units of cultural…
The Technology of Immortality
September 27, 2015
Some futurists believe we are not far from a time when technology and medicine will…
The Psychology of Partisan Politics
July 5, 2015
Are you a tax-raising, soy latte-drinking, Prius-driving, New York Times-reading, Daily Show-watching, corporation-hating liberal? Or…
The Psychology of Evil
August 11, 2013
True evil seems easy to recognize: the killing of innocent children; assigning whole populations to…
The Extended Mind
May 12, 2013
The question of gay rights has become a hot button issue, with opposition taking on…
Self-Deception
August 5, 2012
Self-deception sounds like a contradiction: intentionally convincing yourself of something you know to be untrue. …
Mind Reading
April 8, 2012
We base many decisions every day not only on the belief that other people have…
Schizophrenia and the Mind
August 21, 2011
To be human, philosophers have often said, is to be rational. But many people, for…
Beliefs Gone Wild
May 15, 2011
Our brains evolved on the African savannah, but are now expected to deal with complex…
Dualism
September 19, 2010
What is the relationship between the mind and the brain? Monists believe that there is…
Making Decisions
July 25, 2010
When we make decisions we think we’re in control, making rational choices. But are we?…
Mental Illness and Culture
May 9, 2010
Paranoia, depression, schizophrenia, bipolarity, and all the other ways Americans have discovered to be crazy…
Infinity
March 7, 2010
Infinity is a puzzling concept. Mathematicians say there are as many odd numbers as there…
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