The Limits of Self-Knowledge
June 26, 2016
Descartes considered the mind to be fully self-transparent; that is, he thought that we need…
Psychology Tagged Episodes
Memes: Viruses of the Mind?
April 24, 2016
Gangnam style, Lolcats, and Chuck Norris’ superhuman feats are all memes – units of cultural…
Has Science Replaced Philosophy?
September 6, 2015
Modern science has made astounding progress in our understanding of ourselves and the universe. Physics,…
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…
Physics, Philosophy, and Theology
June 9, 2013
The world disclosed by the physical sciences can seem depressing. Modern physics, for example, has…
Procrastination
October 7, 2012
Everyone procrastinates – academics are especially prone to it. But why do we procrastinate? Is…
Summer Reading List 2012
May 27, 2012
Summer is the perfect time to dig in to deep reading. Plato’s Collected Dialogues may…
Mind Reading
April 8, 2012
We base many decisions every day not only on the belief that other people have…
Altruism
June 13, 2010
Are people genuinely altruistic, or is altruism just a type of selfish-behavior? Are other animals…
Predicting the Future
August 23, 2009
People who predict the future well are sometimes said to be psychic. But we all…
Language and Thought
June 15, 2008
You might think our thoughts simply determine what we say. But maybe the language we…
Existentialism
August 5, 2007
Being and Nothingness, the for-itself and the in-itself, bad faith, and the existential predicament; these…
Nature vs. Nurture
February 21, 2006
The philosopher John Locke thought we had no innate ideas; our minds are blank slates,…
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