Some musical rhythms are built to get us bobbing, foot-tapping or dancing. Researchers show how rhythmic complexity matters ...

One way to capture this idea is to say that pleasure picks out something (an object or state of affairs) in the world – it has a target. However, this is only one part of the story. For something to ...

Two puny words shoulder a substantial, if diffuse, philosophical outlook: as if. Epicurus was perhaps the first to put this unexceptional construction to good use. He felt that life was about ...

Andrei A Buckareff is professor of philosophy and co-director of the cognitive science programme at Marist College in New York. His works include Causing Human Actions: New Perspectives on the Causal ...

To resist dogma and accept uncertainty, think like a pragmatist Founded in 19th-century America, the philosophy of pragmatism promises imaginative ways of coping with our circumstances by Michael ...

Social media is full of images of people plunging into freezing lakes and icy baths, with influencers touting the benefits of cold exposure in one form or another. You may have been wondering what ...

The painting is still, but not completely: there is some dynamism, some slow play of light and shadow, of forces between the foreground of the water, the background of the trees, and the hanging ...

Pilgrimage is a way of making meaning by making journeys. It’s a feature of spiritual traditions, but there are many secular pilgrims, too. Ultimately, you define a pilgrimage on your own terms.

Pragmatism is the United States’ most important contribution to philosophy, emerging in the late 19th century, developing throughout the 20th, and flourishing today. At its heart is a rejection of ...

Bharat Jayram Venkat at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics and the Department of History, and director of the UCLA Heat Lab. He is the author of At the Limits of Cure (Duke University Press, ...