Hacking the Brain: Beyond the Five Senses
January 23, 2022
Humans evolved to have a variety of senses—smell, sight, touch, etc.—that provide information about the…
Your Lying Eyes – Perception, Memory, and Justice
September 9, 2018
The criminal justice system often relies on the testimony of eyewitnesses to get convictions. Yet…
The Reality of Time
January 1, 2017
St. Augustine suggested that when we try to grasp the idea of time, it seems…
The Mind and the World
June 7, 2009
What kinds of contact can the mind have with the world? Can we know how…
Language and Thought
June 15, 2008
You might think our thoughts simply determine what we say. But maybe the language we…
Philosophy of Wine
April 6, 2008
The discriminating wine palate: bouquet, nose, great vintages, genius vintners. Are these just myths perpetrated…
Kant
June 3, 2007
Immanuel Kant introduced the human mind as an active originator of experience rather than just…
What is Beauty?
December 27, 2005
Are there objective standards of beauty? Or is beauty in the eye of the beholder?…
Consciousness
April 6, 2004
Is the conscious mind just the brain or something more? Can science explain consciousness? How…
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