Can a Tibetan singer make the leap from the slow pace of life on the Tibetan plateau to the fast rhythms of urban Beijing?

Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural?

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

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Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

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Photos and journal entrees chronicle Michael C Rockefeller’s fateful 1961 journey to New Guinea in search of local art ...

Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 ...

The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do ...

In order to help improve my students’ mental health, I offered a course on the science of happiness. It worked – but why?

We can all be inconsistent. Philosophy illuminates a bigger puzzle: how do we hold contradictory beliefs at the same time?